Inside Beijing’s airpocalypse – a city made ‘almost uninhabitable’ by pollution

The 21 million inhabitants of China’s capital appear to be engaged in a city-wide rehearsal for life on an inhospitable planet. Only it’s not a rehearsal: the poisonous atmosphere is already here

Beijing’s air quality has long been a cause of concern, but the effects of its extreme levels of pollution can now been seen in physical changes to the architecture of the city. Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/dec/16/beijing-airpocalypse-city-almost-uninhabitable-pollution-china