At the International School of Beijing, pollution tops parents' concerns. "They would want routine measurements of the air quality in the classroom -- in their son or daughter's classroom - in the ...

Visitors walk toward the Linglong Tower during an extremely polluted day in Beijing ... emergency air pollution response system was introduced in 2013. The alert, which calls for school closures ...

BEIJING – Schools in the Chinese capital kept students indoors and parents brought their kids to hospitals with breathing ailments Tuesday as Beijing grappled with extremely severe air pollution ...

Beijing air pollution readings reached dangerous levels for the second straight day Saturday, officials warned. Air pollution is a major problem in Beijing and other parts of China, due to the ...

In a recent test, Beijing's air failed to meet international health guidelines six days out of seven. ... Call it D-Day in a $16 billion battle against air pollution.

In China's capital, they're calling it the "airpocalypse," with air pollution ... school. This follows intense public pressure on the issue, driven by the fact that the U.S. Embassy in Beijing ...

Zou Yi, founder of BeijingAirNow, an environmental group documenting China’s battle against air pollution, with images In 2008, China hosted the Beijing Olympics despite a lot of international ...

On the way to school, my kids and I play a guessing game: How polluted is the air today? We use an app linked to the air pollution monitor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, and we try to guess the ...

In recent days, the pollution in the Beijing air has reached record levels ... The interior of the gleaming Terminal 3 of the Beijing Capital International Airport was filled with a thick haze ...

BEIJING (Reuters) – With its parks, centuries-old palaces, history and culture, Beijing should be one of the more pleasant capitals of the world. Instead, it’s considered among the wors… ...

The air in China's capital has been classified as hazardous to human health for a fifth consecutive day. Environmentalists say it's the worst pollution since monitoring began last year.