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Beijing's appalling air pollution exposed by NASA satellites

Marc Howe | January 16, 2013 | 2:27 am Energy China Europe Coal Uranium 

Satellite images released by NASA reveal the full and appalling extent of the air pollution which afflicting large swathes of north-eastern China. The images taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) fitted on NASA's Terra satellite show large parts...

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