PM2.5 intensity level Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:05:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Beijing’s Air Pollution Reaches Dangerously High Levels https://www.greenoptimistic.com/beijings-air-pollution-reaches-dangerously-high-levels-20130131/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/beijings-air-pollution-reaches-dangerously-high-levels-20130131/#respond Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:25:09 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=32352 China is at a crossroads. China has more air pollution than any other country in the world, and the amount of particulate matter in the air is staggering. On January 22nd, the 4 a.m. particulate reading near Tiananmen Square reached 258 on the PM2.5 scale. The World Health Organization has warned that airborne particulate matter […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/beijings-air-pollution-reaches-dangerously-high-levels-20130131/feed/ 0 32352 Chinese Millionaire Sells Thin Air as Protest to Pollution https://www.greenoptimistic.com/guangbiao-china-air-cans-pollution-20130131/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/guangbiao-china-air-cans-pollution-20130131/#respond Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:24:49 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=32358 One of the wealthiest men in China, Chen Guangbiao, worth an estimated $740 million, has traded in his entrepreneurial endeavors for ecological ones. Chen, a high profile philanthropist, made his fortune in the recycling business. Wednesday, he handed out cans air of that he declared were from the parts of China known for the cleanest, purest […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/guangbiao-china-air-cans-pollution-20130131/feed/ 0 32358 China Faces Uphill Battle in Efforts to Combat Air Pollution https://www.greenoptimistic.com/china-efforts-combat-pollution-20130126/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/china-efforts-combat-pollution-20130126/#respond Sat, 26 Jan 2013 08:35:57 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=32088 China has an uphill battle ahead in its efforts to curb the country’s very serious air pollution problem. 2012 saw a drop in the emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, chemical oxygen, and ammonia nitrogen, and 2013 is projected to have an even greater drop. However, China is plagued by such severe air pollution that […]

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