Beijing’s smog: When a scale of zero to 500 doesn’t go high enough A Chinese boy wears a mask as protection from the pollution as he stands with a China flag in Beijing’s Forbidden City ...

When cold wind didn’t arrive as expected, participants in the annual Beijing Marathon had to endure the 26-mile race in the thick smog surrounding the city.

The International School of Beijing, where tuition is north of $37,000 a year, built a pressurized dome for kids to play in during the smog. It cost $5 million.

Anyone familiar with Beijing was quick to notice something was missing Monday, at least temporarily: the city's legendary smog. We found out how the Chinese got rid of the pollution.

Last week was another one of those weeks in Beijing: all anyone could talk about was the smog. A brief respite after rainfall Wednesday night served only to underline just how bad things have been ...

BEIJING (AP) — Beijing's skyscrapers receded into a dense gray smog Thursday as the capital saw the season's first wave of extremely dangerous pollution, with the concentration of toxic small ...

Smog in China's capital Beijing has climbed back into the unhealthy range as the second pollution red alert of December goes into effect.

"Beijing's skies are shrouded in a blanket of spectral grey smog, which blocks visibility and makes the eyes sting," Lim tells our Newscast Desk.

Recent smog levels in Beijing hit 40 times the safe level, which must have been a horrifying experience for most residents. But the extra smog may have made life a little easier for Nut Brother, a ...