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Beijing steps up to check air pollution

Environmental protection bureau fines polluting industries a record US $4.2 million in 2014

Take a deep breath – here's what 2016 revealed about deadly dangers of air pollution

Will the evidence finally convince polluted cities to clean up their act?

Beijing asks residents to leave town ahead of international economic forum

Announces week-long vacations to reduce pollution and traffic during meet

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Beijing imposes traffic measures to curb air pollution

Measures include prohibiting certain categories of vehicles from plying on roads depending on pollution levels and restricting traffic based on …

Beijing undertakes measures to fight air pollution

City has launched initiatives to gradually ban coal, impose a pollution fee and create “air corridors”

Beijing closes its polluting power plant

Plans to close the remaining three coal-fired plants also, and generate power wholly by clean energy by 2016

Air pollution and our right to clear air

As Delhi’s air pollution levels reach alarming highs, even non-smokers in the city have started developing smokers’ lungs. But the …

Delhi loses air pollution control race to Beijing: Centre for Science and Environment

Delhi faces the same challenge of cleaning up its air as Beijing, but lacks aggression and stringency of action needed to protect public health

China: Ambitious project to rescue Beijing from water crisis

Water will be diverted from country’s south to the water-scarce northern region

Chinese parliamentary report slams country’s neglect of air pollution

Report pulls up local officials for their inaction

Lessons from Beijing to Delhi

In just four years, Beijing has improved its air quality by setting time-bound targets and implementing a comprehensive regional action plan

Delhi had only one good air quality day this winter by Beijing standards: CSE

Fresh number crunching by Centre for Science and Environment shows that if air quality parameters of Beijing or that of the US were to be applied …

NGT slams Delhi government for worsening air pollution; sets agenda to curb vehicular emissions

City needs aggressive and time bound action to meet clean air standards and reduce public health risk, says non-profit Centre for Science and …

China proposes stiffer fines for polluters

Instead of a one off fine, government proposes daily fines for polluters who fail to heed notices

Gas chambers

Air pollution levels rise drastically in Asia; push health costs

Beijing is sinking due to excessive groundwater extraction

A new study has found a direct correlation between depression in the surface and pumping out of groundwater

Lessons Delhi could learn from Beijing to clean up its air act

Delhi's bad air woes are worsened by an unresponsive media, unaware people and a government that does not seem to care

Living with smokers is as bad as living in polluted cities

Passive smoking can expose non-smokers to three times the officially recommended levels of fine particulate matter

Pollution from Asia intensifying Pacific storms: study

Scientists say pollution from Asia is likely leading to stronger cyclones in the mid-latitudes of the Pacific, more precipitation, and a faster …