In the first three months of this year, two major air pollutants increased by almost 30 percent here in Beijing, the Chinese capital, over the same period in 2012, according to a report Wednesday by a Chinese news organization.
Levels of the pollutants — nitrous dioxide and particulate matter that is between 2.5 and 10 micrometers in diameter, called PM 10 — appeared to have surged sharply in January, when they increased 47 percent over the same month last year, according to the report by The Economic Observer, a respected Chinese newspaper. The report cited as its source Chen Tian, head of the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau.
A third pollutant, sulfur dioxide, decreased slightly over the same three-month period.
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Edward Wong, New York Times via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/ewBDycFlGFc/
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