Smog War

China will extend winter anti-smog measures such as production cuts and traffic restrictions for a third successive winter, the environment ministry said in a pollution battle plan for 2019 published on Wednesday.The Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) also vowed to speed up the elimination of small coal-fired heating boilers in major regions...

Across north China, cities are struggling to strike a balance between reversing the environmental damage done by decades of breakneck growth and keeping their heavy industrial economies afloat.

China's industry ministry will adopt a more nuanced, "scientific" approach when it comes to curbing emissions from polluting firms, it said on Wednesday.

China's war on pollution is at risk of reaching a "stalemate", with poor weather conditions undermining the country's efforts to reduce smog, an environment ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

China appears to be "winning" its war on air pollution, making so much progress that life expectancy could rise by more than two years, according to a US university study.

The government of China has warned provincial officials to comply with stringent steps to clear the skies as some northern Chinese cities failed to improve air quality by much last month, hitting the smog-prone region's overall results in a drive against pollution.

Delhi needs more buses powered by the clean fuel CNG as the national capital and the surrounding region are swallowed by thick smog that developed due to a host of factors, including automobile emissions, the Delhi High Court told the Kejriwal government on Tuesday

Rahul Gandhi today picked a couplet from a song from the 1978 film Gaman to describe the experience of living a city wrapped in smog. His tweet can also be interpreted as an apparent swipe at the state and central governments for failing to tackle air pollution that has hit emergency levels in the national capital.

Though China's Hebei province promised to close down companies that are poisoning the environment, villagers living in the shadows of the Guantao chemical park remain sceptical.

The sun shone on Xi Jinping's World War II victory parade in Beijing on Thursday after authorities imposed widespread curbs on factories and vehicles to curb the capital's notorious pollution.

IBM's cloud-based analytic systems could also be tailored to make better use of renewable energy.

IBM Corp has signed an agreement with the city of Beijing to use advanced weather forecasting and cloud computing technologies to help tackle the Chinese capital's persistent smog.

Environmental inspectors in Beijing are scrambling to keep pace with a rising number of cases as the city tries to impose tough new standards on thousands of polluting firms.

China is to "declare war" on pollution, Premier Li Keqiang said on Wednesday at the opening of the annual meeting of parliament, with the government unveiling detailed measures to tackle what has become a hot-button social issue.

China will extend winter anti-smog measures such as production cuts and traffic restrictions for a third successive winter, the environment ministry said in a pollution battle plan for 2019 published on Wednesday.The Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) also vowed to speed up the elimination of small coal-fired heating boilers in major regions...

Across north China, cities are struggling to strike a balance between reversing the environmental damage done by decades of breakneck growth and keeping their heavy industrial economies afloat.

China's industry ministry will adopt a more nuanced, "scientific" approach when it comes to curbing emissions from polluting firms, it said on Wednesday.

China's war on pollution is at risk of reaching a "stalemate", with poor weather conditions undermining the country's efforts to reduce smog, an environment ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

China appears to be "winning" its war on air pollution, making so much progress that life expectancy could rise by more than two years, according to a US university study.

The government of China has warned provincial officials to comply with stringent steps to clear the skies as some northern Chinese cities failed to improve air quality by much last month, hitting the smog-prone region's overall results in a drive against pollution.

Delhi needs more buses powered by the clean fuel CNG as the national capital and the surrounding region are swallowed by thick smog that developed due to a host of factors, including automobile emissions, the Delhi High Court told the Kejriwal government on Tuesday

Rahul Gandhi today picked a couplet from a song from the 1978 film Gaman to describe the experience of living a city wrapped in smog. His tweet can also be interpreted as an apparent swipe at the state and central governments for failing to tackle air pollution that has hit emergency levels in the national capital.

Though China's Hebei province promised to close down companies that are poisoning the environment, villagers living in the shadows of the Guantao chemical park remain sceptical.

The sun shone on Xi Jinping's World War II victory parade in Beijing on Thursday after authorities imposed widespread curbs on factories and vehicles to curb the capital's notorious pollution.

IBM's cloud-based analytic systems could also be tailored to make better use of renewable energy.

IBM Corp has signed an agreement with the city of Beijing to use advanced weather forecasting and cloud computing technologies to help tackle the Chinese capital's persistent smog.

Environmental inspectors in Beijing are scrambling to keep pace with a rising number of cases as the city tries to impose tough new standards on thousands of polluting firms.

China is to "declare war" on pollution, Premier Li Keqiang said on Wednesday at the opening of the annual meeting of parliament, with the government unveiling detailed measures to tackle what has become a hot-button social issue.