Beijing issues second ever pollution red alert as China braces for a new wave of smog, triggering school closures and a ban on cars and even BARBECUES

• Air pollution due to begin rolling in from Saturday evening and last until Tuesday, blanketing swathes of the country
• Visibility in worst areas such as Beijing likely to fall to less than 1km, prompting warnings to avoid outdoor activities
• Half the cars in capital will be forced off the road on any given day while barbecues are banned and schools closed
• Beijing issued first 'red alert' last week after criticism that previous bouts of smog failed to trigger highest warning

By SIMON TOMLINSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 08:24 GMT, 18 December 2015 | UPDATED: 15:10 GMT, 18 December 2015

Tỉ lệ tử vong vì ô nhiễm không khí có thể tăng gấp đôi

Tia Sáng
02:32-07/10/2015

Các hoạt động nông nghiệp là một trong những
nguồn gây ô nhiễm nghiêm trọng nhất.

Theo một nghiên cứu mới do Viện Max Planck, Đức, thực hiện, số người tử vong hằng năm do ô nhiễm không khí ngoài trời có thể tăng từ 3,5 triệu người hiện nay (theo ước tính của Tổ chức Y tế Thế giới - WHO) lên 6,6 triệu người trên toàn cầu vào năm 2050.

CLIMATE CHANGE AND PRESIDENT OBAMA'S ACTION PLAN

On Monday, August 3, President Obama is announcing the finalization of America's Clean Power Plan, the biggest step we've ever taken to combat climate change. This plan sets the first-ever carbon pollution standards for power plants, while providing states and utilities with the flexibility they need to meet those standards.

Horror four-mile oil slick on California coast: Fears for wildlife as 21,000 gallons of crude oil spills from ruptured pipeline

• Pipeline dumped in culvert under freeway and spill reaches for miles and goes 50 yards out on Refugio State Beach
• Santa Barbara County health officials shut down the beach as spill comes days before Memorial Day weekend
• The busted pipeline is operated by Plains All American Pipeline LP and the cause of the rupture is still unknown
• The Coast Guard, Department of Fish and Wildlife and Santa Barbara County are assisting on the clean-up 

By REUTERS and ASSOCIATED PRESS and DAILY MAIL REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 00:34 GMT, 20 May 2015 | UPDATED: 08:46 GMT, 20 May 2015

'We have a moral imperative to act'

 

 'We have a moral imperative to act': Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo join hundreds of thousands in crowding New York streets for climate march

• Roughly 100,000 filled the streets of NYC for the People's Climate March in midtown Manhattan ahead of Tuesday's United Nations hosted summit on carbon emissions
• United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, former vice president Al Gore, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and U.S. senators also joined the march
• Similar rallies were held around the world including Britain, France, Afghanistan, and Bulgaria

By Reuters and Mail Online Reporter

Published: 16:25 GMT, 21 September 2014 | Updated: 08:48 GMT, 22 September 2014 

Global Coal Usage Reaches 44 Year High

  Jun 18, 2014 

Earlier this week, BP issued its annual "Statistical Review of World Energy" report. According to the report, coal was the fastest-growing fossil fuel worldwide last year, and "coal's share of global primary energy consumption reached 30.1 percent, the highest since 1970". Despite a decrease in coal usage by North America and Europe over the past several years (due in large part to cheaper natural gas), global coal consumption has risen to new highs, driven by the growing and power-hungry markets of China and India. And, as might be expected, worldwide carbon emissions grew again last year, by another 2.1 percent. Despite increasing urgency from the scientific community to reduce carbon emissions to head off climate disaster, and the small but growing use of renewable energy sources, coal appears to be the fuel of choice at the moment, and predictions are that its usage will continue to rise. [32 photos]

Agbogbloshie: the world's largest e-waste dump – in pictures

theguardian.com, Thursday 27 February 2014 13.53 GMT

Discarders of electronic goods expect them to be recycled properly. But almost all such devices contain toxic chemicals which, even if they are recyclable, make it expensive to do so. As a result, illegal dumping has become a lucrative business.

Rubbish city: China’s e-waste epidemic – in pictures

theguardian.com, Thursday 12 June 2014 15.20 BST

 

Mounds of decaying air conditioners, piles of abandoned electronics and tenements built among the trash … Reuters photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon has documented the lives of residents of Dongxiaokou, a village outside Beijing and home to a large electronic-waste recycling centre, for a look at life amid the digital ruins

Chinese authorities fish out 157 dead pigs from river

Animals found in Gan – a tributary of the Yangtze – in Jiangxi, which supplies drinking water to the provincial capital, Nanchang

• Agence France-Presse in Beijing
• theguardian.com, Wednesday 19 March 2014 09.24 GMT

Pig carcasses wrapped in plastic sheets waiting to be moved from the banks of the Gan river in Nanchang, China. Photograph: Str/AFP/Getty

Asian Air Pollution Affecting World’s Weather

January 21, 2014

Extreme air pollution in Asia is affecting the world’s weather and climate patterns, according to a study by Texas A&M University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers.

Yuan Wang, a former doctoral student at Texas A&M, along with Texas A&M atmospheric sciences professors Renyi Zhang and R. Saravanan, have had their findings published in the current issue of Nature Communications. 

Satellite photo shows huge air pollution clouds at far left. Japan is on the right. (Photo: NASA JPL)

Using climate models and data collected about aerosols and meteorology over the past 30 years, the researchers found that air pollution over Asia – much of it coming from China – is impacting global air circulations.

“The models clearly show that pollution originating from Asia has an impact on the upper atmosphere and it appears to make such storms or cyclones even stronger,” Zhang explains.

Nguy Cơ Khủng Hoảng Nguồn Nước tại Trung Quốc - China’s Impending Water Crisis

English

Dr. César Chelala       March 1, 2014
 

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