China Responsible for Almost Half of All Global Coal Consumption, Reports EIA
Photo via Shutterstock As over 30 million residents of Beijing experience record breaking levels of hazardous smog , the U.S. Energy Information Agency’s latest figures find that China currently...
View ArticleChina Announces Plans to Export Greenhouse Gases to Terraform Mars
As an extension of China’s $16 billion plan to combat air pollution in its cities, today China National Space Administration (CNSA) head Sun Laiyan announced an ambitious plan to export the nation’s...
View ArticleChina to Combat Air Pollution with New Smog-Busting Air Drones
China’s air pollution problems are well documented and numerous, so the government has announced plans to tackle the problem with a unique solution. Not by cutting emissions (because that would be too...
View ArticleProject Blue Skyscraper Turns China’s Dreadful Air Pollution into Green Energy
While China’s booming economy has been a spectacle to watch, its corresponding pollution levels have been staggering as well. A side effect of being “the factory of the world” is that the cities in...
View ArticleChina is Banning Coal in Beijing But Critics Worry it Could Make Pollution Worse
When it comes to China’s pollution problem , it seems like it’s one step forward and two steps back after China recently announced plans to ban coal use in Beijing in a move that environmentalists are...
View ArticleBeijing’s hazardous air is so bad, it is off the charts
Despite taking steps to limit carbon output , Beijing’s toxic air is still breaking records. In fact, Beijing’s air is so bad that last Thursday it was literally off the charts. Fine air particulates...
View ArticleChina’s smog kills 4,000 people every day
We all know that pollution in China is bad, but we didn’t know it was this bad. A new study has found air pollution is killing about 4,000 people per day in China. Using newly available data,...
View ArticleChina is burning 17 percent more coal each year than previously reported
China is supposed to be making major cutbacks on fossil fuels in an effort to reduce carbon emissions, but a new government report indicates that previous figures haven’t exactly been accurate. That...
View Article40% of China’s factories shuttered in pollution crackdown
Is China at last cracking down on factory pollution ? The country’s Ministry of Environment inspectors have charged, fined, or reprimanded officials from over 80,000 factories in 10 provinces in the...
View ArticleChina is winning the war on air pollution
China is notorious for having some of the worst air pollution on the planet. In 2014 the country declared war on smog, and the results are in: China is killing it. In just four years, pollution is...
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