He got in touch with NASA and persuaded them to let him use their satellite images for a new update on the China air pollution project.
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Many people wonder how China's pollution will affect athletes at the Beijing Olympics.
Today, our countries agreed to a joint initiative that will help China reduce air pollution and increase clean energy production, including through the use of American technology.
With its desire to clean up air pollution, China could consume as much natural gas as the entire European Union by 2035, according to the report.
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To cope with air pollution in China, artist Matt Hope produced a "Breathing Bike, " that consists of a fighter pilot's breathing mask attached to a pedal-powered air filtration system.
As I reported last August, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), a Beijing-based nonprofit organization, is using government information and enforcement data to track pollution across China.
China, which faces growing pollution problems from fossil fuels, recently resumed permitting new reactors, ending a hiatus that followed Fukushima.
China issued a second water-pollution alert within a month, when phenol, a dangerous chemical, leaked into the Yangzi river near Shanghai.
In environmental news, Xinhua flags up a survey by the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences showing that only 22.2%of shallow groundwater in the North China Plain is drinkable because of pollution.
Imagine Shanghai crabs being caught in American ponds, lakes, and rivers, without pesticides and industrial pollution, and exported to China.
Media coverage of local industrial pollution problems is encouraged by the government of China, to show that they care about the environment.
Smog also spread across central and eastern regions as a yellow haze alert was issued yesterday, and "heavy to severely heavy pollution" was recorded in Beijing, China Daily reports.
In 2007 the BBC visited the small hamlet of Shangba in southern China where one scientist was studying the cause and effects of pollution on the village.
China Central Television and The Beijing News report a return of moderate to severe air pollution in 74 cities due to bad weather and firework celebrations during the Chinese New Year holidays last week.
"If we only rely on domestic resources to develop the animal-husbandry industry, China's grain production will face challenges, and there will be more serious environmental pollution problems, " Mr. Li said.
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China Daily says public expectations are running high for the two sessions, especially on corruption, pollution, education, healthcare and social security.
One week prior to the summit, Jairam Ramesh, member and minister of state for environment and forests, told India's Parliament that the country should plan to reduce the ratio of pollution to production by 20% to 25% compared with 2005 levels, but like China, not accept a legally binding emissions reduction target.
At a pollution seminar yesterday, experts said smog reached "extreme danger" levels in central and eastern China last month, People's Daily reports.
"The draft law it is really trying to tackle the issue in a proactive way, trying to tackle the pollution at its source, " said Ma Jun, a prominent environmentalist in Beijing and author of China's Water Crisis.
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