Beijing issues first red alert for air pollution — but there’s a silver lining in the smog

Believe it or not, the air quality in the Chinese capital is actually improving. Just not very fast. On Monday, the Beijing municipal government issued its first “red alert” for smog, urging schools to close, restricting traffic and closing down construction sites for three days starting Tuesday. The decision underlines what everybody knows: decades of […]











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