by AngelHsu | Jun 21, 2014 | China, Data
By Angel Hsu and William Miao. This post originally appeared on Scientific American. On March 17, the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Land and Resources released the first-ever results of a nationwide soil pollution survey that took...
by AngelHsu | Jun 15, 2014 | Air quality, Data, Data Visualization
(Hsu et al/The Atlantic) View full-screen mapBy Angel Hsu and Alisa Zomer. This post initially appeared on The Atlantic. In March, the World Health Organization estimated that air pollution was responsible for 7 million premature deaths in 2012. That’s one out of...
by AngelHsu | Jun 10, 2014 | Air quality, Apps, China
My friend Yang Chu alerted me to a recent update Meitu, the most popular Chinese photo-editing app, has made. It now includes a “desmog” filter that one can apply to photos to allow an embrace of “blue skies.” I tested the app using several...
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