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Pollution in China



A few weeks ago, Matt mentioned Beijing's possible plans to build a wind farm and run the 2008 Olympics on wind power alone. I commented at the time that, according to Wired magazine, the air quality in Beijing was so bad that there was talk of shutting the whole city down for a while before and during the Olympics.

Well, as part of The New York Times' "Choking on Growth" series, Joseph Kahn and Tim Yardley recently wrote an article about China's pollution reaching deadly extremes. They say that "Beijing is frantically searching for a magic formula, a meteorological deus ex machina, to clear its skies for the 2008 Olympics."

The article is a bit long, but definitely worth checking out when you have some time. Read the article here and the series here, which even has goodies like an audio slideshow and a video report.

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