Agent Orange: Shanghai Gets Worst Smog Alert Yet

While Shanghai basked in clear-skies during Beijing’s airpocalypse earlier this month, a storm was a brewin’ and heading southward. 

Yesterday, Shanghai issued its first orange alert – the second highest after red – for hazardous smog, with AQI levels reaching as high as 260. Work at construction sites and outdoor activities at schools were put on hold for the day as the PM2.5 limit hit eight times the WHO-recommended standard.

Now if only Shanghai had some drawings to help tourists find the Pearl Tower through the smog...

[Images Via Virginia Werner, Getty Images, China Daily, and Shanghai Daily]