Beijing Issues "Red Alert" Over Smog Levels For First Time
In recent week , the northeasterly part of China has beensmothered in smogso duncish and so heavily loaded withmicroparticlesthat a performance artist has handle to make asolid brickout of it . Beijing is the centrepiece of this cover of semi - permanent defilement , and today , much of the city has been shut down on government orders after the Chinese majuscule ’s smogginess problem reached unprecedentedly dangerous degree , as reported byBBC News ....