air quality index Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:02:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Beijing Fights Air Pollution by Shutting Down Airports and Car Traffic https://www.greenoptimistic.com/beijing-pollution-airports-car-traffic-20131010/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/beijing-pollution-airports-car-traffic-20131010/#respond Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:02:38 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=42415 China’s economic growth “at any cost” has indeed some with a cost, air pollution on a grand scale and, in her biggest cities, the premature deaths of hundreds. The increased number of vehicles and coal-fired industry and power plants, combined with weather conditions and geological features, has led to astonishing levels of air pollution in […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/beijing-pollution-airports-car-traffic-20131010/feed/ 0 42415 Deadly Pollution Levels Plague Hong Kong https://www.greenoptimistic.com/deadly-pollution-levels-plague-hong-kong-20130416/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/deadly-pollution-levels-plague-hong-kong-20130416/#respond Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:44:00 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=36294 On Monday in Hong Kong, children, the elderly, and people with respiratory illnesses and heart conditions were advised to stay inside because air pollution index readings were at their highest this year. In Beijing on Monday, the pollution index reached as high as 167, considered a very unhealthy level of pollution according to the US […]

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