Respiratory problems may be aggravated by warming-induced increases in smog. Other less obvious dangers are also potentially devastating. Pine bark beetles, which devour trees in western North America will be able to produce more generations each Continue ..

“As of 3 pm today, about 280 flights in and out of the airport experienced delays,” an official in the information centre of Beijing Capital Airport, who declined to give his name, told AFP. An airport statement attributed the poor visibility to “a Continue ..

The smog was so heavy this morning that we could not see the TV tower out our window We took the wonderful train from Tianjin Railway Station again and were in Beijing in less time that it took for us to get from our apartment to the railway Continue ..

The toughest weather challenge turned out to be Beijing, where the smog was so bad that Pugh says they “didn’t see the runway until we were over it.” The highlight of the trip? Pugh can’t list one, but he says landing in Hanoi, so many years after Continue ..

Late in August, while our 747 circled the Beijing haze, I prepared to ply both my boys with pink, chewable Tylenol. I’d heard from friends that the capital had gone H1N1-quarantine-mad: locking up tourists in policed hotels, isolating children in Continue ..

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