China's expanding deserts now cover one-third of the country because of overgrazing, deforestation, urban sprawl and drought. Fire and sandstorm. Several vehicles vanished into thick, yellowish air as a sandstorm swallowed a town in NW China’s Qinghai Province.
Appearing around 1:40 p.m., the gigantic sand wave reduced visibility to less than 400 meters. Pictures: Toxic Smog in China Created by Air Pollution and Sandstorms By Dana Dovey On 3/28/18 at 2:54 PM EDT People walk in a dust storm on March 27, 2018 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province of China. Share the News. Per Bloomberg, the concentration of small particulate matter in the air measured at about 328 µg/m3, which is the worst reading the city has experienced in more than a year.

May. 2020. 27. The shifting sands have led to a sharp increase in sandstorms - the grit from which can travel as far as the western United States. Within China, steps to prevent spread of the disease included large-scale quarantine of affected populations which impacted production within the country. Disaster in China! Over in China's capital city of Beijing, the air quality wasn't much better, as locals on Monday sported protective face masks due to increasing levels of smog. A major landslide occurred in Botong Village (South Sulawesi Province) and in Tanah Datar County (West Sumatra).

The video game industry was impacted by the outbreak in various ways, most often due to concerns over travel to and from China or elsewhere, or related to … CGTN Gigantic sandstorm swallows roads in NW China 3 weeks ago . Gigantic sandstorm swallows roads in NW China. The China Meteorological Administration issued a yellow sandstorm alert – the third-most serious danger level – warning about a drop in visibility to less than 1,000 meters and increased air pollution. This had a large number of impacts on social, medical, and economic systems worldwide. Northwest China hit by sandstorm as Beijing is smothered in smog Visibility went below 100 metres (328 feet) in parts of Zhangye City in Gansu province Floods in Indonesia, Spain and Saudi Arabia In this episode: Heavy rainfall occurred causing flash flooding in Afghanistan, Castellón (Spain), Bandung (West Java Province).