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Aug 19, 2019 · The word ‘airpocalypse’ was first used in 2013 in China to explain the levels of toxic smog that people living in Beijing, in particular, were exposed to, when airborne smog particles peaked at 35 times the World Health Organisation’s recommended limit.
Feb 28, 2022 · Around that time, China’s smog reached a crisis point — its air pollution hit dangerous levels, with frequent episodes of what came to be known as an “airpocalypse” in 2013. The country’s largest cities were among the most polluted on Earth.
Mar 28, 2020 · In November 2019, India's capital city, Delhi plunges into an air pollution crisis. As winter 2020 approaches, can Delhi prevent another airpocalypse?
- 46 min
- Grow First, Clean Up Later
- China vs Japan and The Us
- Pollution Priorities
- The Next Great Leap Forward
The environmental degradation that has accompanied China’s rapid industrialisation has been well-known since the mid-1990s, when campaigners such as [Ma Jun](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Jun_(environmentalist) drew attention to severe water pollution. However, until recently the authorities generally paid lip-serviceto environmental regulation, ...
In China today, concentrations of sulphur dioxide or SO2 in the air are no higherthan in some badly polluted Japanese cities back in the 1960s. On this measure alone, it might appear that China’s air pollution problems are no worse. However, using other metrics, pollution in China appears far worse than Japan or the US in the past. For instance, to...
While Chinese citizens may be encouraged by the amounts of money being promised for new environmental controls and remediation, the current major uncertainty is by how much and how quickly pollution can be cleaned up. From a physical and chemical viewpoint, the main types of pollution can be ranked in order of their amenability to rapid reduction. ...
Clearly a huge effort, over a long time-frame, targeting all parts of industry and the natural environment, will be required if China’s environment is to be restored to a condition where people feel it is safe to send their children outside, drink local water and eat local food. On his micro-blog site, Ma Jun recently askedChinese people to conside...
- Matthew Currell
Beijing’s January 2013 “Airpocalypse” was extraordinarily severe, with the maximum daily PM 2.5 concentration exceeding the WHO guideline nearly 22-fold.
- Joshua M. Ferreri, Roger D. Peng, Michelle L. Bell, Liu Ya, Tiantian Li, G. Brooke Anderson
- 10.1007/s11869-017-0538-0
- 2018
- 2018/04
Mar 15, 2021 · Beijingers are accustomed to heavy pollution, but Monday marked some of the worst conditions since a thick smog descended in 2012, dubbed the “airpocalypse”.
Jul 20, 2021 · A heatwave in one of the world’s coldest regions has sparked forest fires and threatened the Siberian city of Yakutsk with an “airpocalypse” of thick toxic smoke, atmospheric monitoring ...
