#Beijing was cloaked in thick yellow #smog on Monday with pollution levels surging off the charts as the worst #sandstorm in a decade descended on #China’s capital from the Gobi desert. City residents used goggles, masks and hairnets to protect themselves from the choking dust and sand, with landmarks including the Forbidden City partly obscured behind an apocalyptic-looking haze.
‘It looks like the end of the world’: Beijing smothered by hazardous yellow smog
