Nature: economic growth impacts on China's air quality

China's spectacular economic growth during the last decade has brought many benefits – and some challenges. Global atmospheric mapping of nitrogen dioxide pollution performed by ERS-2's GOME and Envisat's SCIAMACHY reveals the world's largest amount of NO₂ hanging above Beijing and northeast China, as reported in Nature this week.

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