He first announced his plan to collect dust from Beijing's air (via vacuum) in July, reports Quartz. Then, each day for 100 days, he updated his Sina Weibo account with his planned vacuuming area ...

The internet was quick to shame Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for jogging through the smoggy streets of Beijing without a mask. But the reaction highlights an increasingly dangerous pollution ...

Some of the world's most notoriously smoggy cities are hoping for relief ... 330,000 of the cars being retired will come from Beijing, which sees some 31 percent of its PM2.5 particulate matter ...