Beijing will ban half of its 3.4 million cars from the roads during periods ... we must use both methods that increase the number of good air quality days and more stringent measures for when ...

The Beijing ... half the cars will be banned every day until after the Olympics, CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen reports. Call it D-Day in a $16 billion battle against air pollution.

Beijing issued its first red alert for air pollution on Monday, a decision that has led to severe but temporary restrictions on car usage for the city's 20 million-plus residents. Enacted in 2013 ...

As Louisa added: "China is choking on its own breakneck development, with thousands of new cars taking to the ... She says around 50 percent of Beijing's air pollution is historically due to ...

BEIJING (AP ... the storms that had often turned the surrounding air a cataclysmic yellowish-red. Air quality also improved markedly after 2000, when much of China’s industry was shuttered ...