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E China plants suspended after students’ nosebleeds – Xinhua | English.news.cn
Nine industrial plants in east China’s Zhejiang Province have been fined and suspended after their emissions were blamed for a spate of nosebleeds in a nearby middle school, authorities said on...
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Beijing cuts coal use by 7 percent in first half of year – China –...
Beijing cut coal consumption by 7 percent in the first half of 2014 as part of its efforts to tackle smog, the city’s environmental protection bureau said. Beijing is at the front line of a “war on...
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End of the road for Delhi’s old cars as India battles smog | Reuters
The National Green Tribunal has banned all vehicles older than 15 years from the streets of the capital, New Delhi, in a bid to clean up air that one prominent study this year found to be the world’s...
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Urbanisation: The great sprawl of China | The Economist
IN ANCIENT times, Beijing built towering city walls that helped to prevent undefendable sprawl. These days it builds ring roads, stretching built-up areas ever outwards. Near Langfang, a city halfway...
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Big data reveals movement of New Year travelers – China – Chinadaily.com.cn
Beijing and other first-tier cities in China remain the major sources of outflux of passengers in this Spring Festival travel rush but the capital is also one of the top three destinations for the...
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China to unveil measures to fight water pollution | Reuters
China is to launch an action plan to protect the quality of its scarce water resources after years of rapid economic growth that have left much of its water supply too polluted for human consumption or...
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India launches air quality index to give pollution information – BBC News
India has launched its first air quality index, to provide real time information about pollution levels. The index, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will initially monitor air quality in 10...
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Coal-fired plants in Beijing on way out with new ban|Society|chinadaily.com.cn
Beijing will ban new coal-fired thermal power plants after the four existing ones are expected to be replaced by gas-fired plants by 2017, according to the municipal economic planner. View image |...
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Raise the green lanterns | The Economist
WHEN world leaders gathered in Paris to discuss cutting planet-heating emissions, a pall of smog hung over Beijing. In parts of the capital levels of fine particulate matter reached 30 times the limit...
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Beijing shut down over 1,000 factories over past 5...
Very good news, indeed. “Beijing has closed 1,006 manufacturing and polluting enterprises over the past five years, the municipal government revealed Friday. In addition, 228 markets were also closed...
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