While Beijing's residents can now breathe a little easier after days of dangerous smog, Delhi's residents are still enmeshed in a haze that offers no relief. Last weekend, as a gray smog converged onto Beijing, news headlines and social media users all focused on Beijing's highest air pollution level in over a year. Yet, while the U.S. Embassy's reading of Beijing's air pollution on Monday found a measure of more than 600, it measured an off the charts 999in New Delhi on its air quality index just two days prior. Further while Beijing's smog has since blown away, Delhi's air quality measure on Friday is still in the "very unhealthy" range at 224. Read more
