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Air pollution: Made in China

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
--FILE--Tourists visit the Forbidden City in heavy smog in Beijing, China, 17 March 2013. Air quality seriously deteriorated in some major metropolises on the Chinese mainland in 2012, but there were surprising improvements in a few cities, said an environmental report released in Beijing. Beijings air was the second-most polluted in 2012 among 31 municipal and provincial capital cities ranked by Friends of Nature, a major non-governmental organisation, in its annual Green Book of Environment. Lanzhou, in the northwestern province of Gansu, finished 31st, below Beijing.
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STAR-ADVERTISER FILE
Visitors come to Hawaii to enjoy sunny skies and great weather, but a change in sea temperature can create a stronger flow of pollution from Asia that could bring more smoggy days to our shores.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / JAN. 29, 2013
A man wears a mask as protection against thick smog at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. China, one of the most visited countries in the world, saw tourist numbers plummet last year, with worsening air pollution partly to blame.