Beijing's Kyoto Tilt

Over 31,000 evacuated from Beijing as Typhoon Doksuri breaks rainfall records

Doksuri is China’s fifth and most powerful typhoon seen in 2023 

Malnutrition and diabetes

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Beijing steps up to check air pollution

Environmental protection bureau fines polluting industries a record US $4.2 million in 2014

Take a deep breath – here's what 2016 revealed about deadly dangers of air pollution

Will the evidence finally convince polluted cities to clean up their act?

Beijing asks residents to leave town ahead of international economic forum

Announces week-long vacations to reduce pollution and traffic during meet

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Beijing imposes traffic measures to curb air pollution

Measures include prohibiting certain categories of vehicles from plying on roads depending on pollution levels and restricting traffic based on …

Air pollution and our right to clear air

As Delhi’s air pollution levels reach alarming highs, even non-smokers in the city have started developing smokers’ lungs. But the …

Beijing undertakes measures to fight air pollution

City has launched initiatives to gradually ban coal, impose a pollution fee and create “air corridors”

Beijing closes its polluting power plant

Plans to close the remaining three coal-fired plants also, and generate power wholly by clean energy by 2016

Quarter of a billion likely infected with COVID-19 in China from December 1-20: Government

Nearly 37 million people may have been infected on a single day this week

Delhi loses air pollution control race to Beijing: Centre for Science and Environment

Delhi faces the same challenge of cleaning up its air as Beijing, but lacks aggression and stringency of action needed to protect public health

China: Ambitious project to rescue Beijing from water crisis

Water will be diverted from country’s south to the water-scarce northern region

Chinese parliamentary report slams country’s neglect of air pollution

Report pulls up local officials for their inaction

Fresh China outbreak attributed to multiple known pathogens

Surge could be due to ‘immunity debt’, in turn caused by many pandemic restrictions that prevented exposure to other respiratory viruses

Lessons from Beijing to Delhi

In just four years, Beijing has improved its air quality by setting time-bound targets and implementing a comprehensive regional action plan

Delhi had only one good air quality day this winter by Beijing standards: CSE

Fresh number crunching by Centre for Science and Environment shows that if air quality parameters of Beijing or that of the US were to be applied …

Gas chambers

Air pollution levels rise drastically in Asia; push health costs

NGT slams Delhi government for worsening air pollution; sets agenda to curb vehicular emissions

City needs aggressive and time bound action to meet clean air standards and reduce public health risk, says non-profit Centre for Science and …

China proposes stiffer fines for polluters

Instead of a one off fine, government proposes daily fines for polluters who fail to heed notices

China’s climate pledge and the 2020 irony

Last year China produced a record 3.84 billion tonnes of coal since 2015