The New Year holiday ended on a polluted note as smog enveloped China during the Lantern Festival (China Daily): The authority issued a yellow smog alert at 10 am. Yellow is the second lowest level in China's four-tier color-coded weather alert system. Thick fog, lowering visibility to less than 1,000 meters, shrouded central and northern parts of Jiangsu and areas in Zhejiang early Sunday morning. Smog choked southern Beijing, and parts of Shanxi, Henan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, according to NMC monitoring data. Beijing acted to reduce fireworks as air worsened (Bloomberg) and while ... Read More