by AngelHsu | Mar 1, 2013 | Air quality, China
This post originally appeared on The Metric, the blog of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. By Angel Hsu and William Miao The official Chinese media reported this week, China’s National Committee for Terms in Sciences and Technology has been meeting to...
by AngelHsu | Jan 22, 2013 | Air quality, China
Shanghai’s Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) recently updated how it communicates daily air quality via its website and Weibo account. Shanghai has one of the best websites for accessing information about air quality, including real-time pollution data in...
by AngelHsu | Jan 19, 2013 | Air quality, China
This post originally appeared on The Metric, the blog of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. By Angel Hsu and William Miao, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy Beijing’s air quality once again is making international headlines for...
by AngelHsu | Mar 28, 2012 | Air quality, China, Indices
Earlier this month, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) released the official (trial) revisions to the Ambient Air Quality Index (AQI, which is a notable shift from its previous form as the Air Pollution Index, or API). I wrote last February...
by AngelHsu | Feb 20, 2012 | Air quality, China, Remote Sensing
This post originally appeared on China Dialogue. The Great Wall may not, after all, be visible from space – but Chinese air pollution is. A team of researchers at Battelle Memorial Institute and Columbia University, in collaboration with Yale University, recently...
by AngelHsu | Jan 22, 2012 | Air quality, China
Under much public pressure to release data on fine particulate matter, the Beijing government has incorporated preliminary measurements in real-time. Of course, there is a lot to be desired – the PM 2.5 is labeled as “for research purposes,” and is...
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