Environmental concerns dominate the media in China as newspapers warn of the dangers of toxic smog and polluted underground water.

BBC: China media: Pollution strikes again

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Beijing Daily and the South China Morning Post report that residents in Beijing are advised to stay indoors as much as possible in the next few days as toxic smog hits the capital again for the fourth time in a month.

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For weeks, industrialized cities in northern China have been dealing with bouts of sickening smog several times more toxic than Utah's.

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It had already been invaded by smog, by radiation, by toxic chemicals in my food, and I just wasn't going to take it anymore.

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The Global Times warns of "danger signals" after Chinese scientists find a "large number of toxic and hazardous particles" in polluted air samples from Beijing and Tianjin in January that are similar to deadly smog in Los Angeles and London in the 1950s.

BBC: China media: Pollution strikes again