Goby Desert News Today

Meantime, three chinese astronauts are settling in on their nations space station. they blasted off earlier today on a six-month mission to help build the uncompleted orbiter. agency cnns david culver tells us china is pursuing an aggressive space race with the united states. >> reporter: 90-year-old "star trek" actor william shatner blasted into space, becoming the oldest man to reach such heights amid great fanfare in the u.s. >> oh, wow. >> reporter: thousands of miles away here in the goby d...

Pushes off this across northern china. you see that shading of brown across the screen there? thats sand mixing in and sweeping across beijing obviously causing the air had ards. look what it did to the citys streets, snarling traffic, causing blackouts, people lost power because of the strong winds and the heavy pollution moving through. the gobi desert is the main source for our region and the duststorms. this is common this time of year. the winds pick up off the desert and it causes health h...

Helping the situation and theyre calling for the army to intervene. linda kincaid, cnn. the biggest -- in 13 years swept through parts of northern china into beijing on wednesday, blankets cities in dust and causing a bit of traffic chaos, as well. at times, it was difficult for people to open their eyes. were joined now with more on thp. of course, one of the problems of this, its the fine particulate matter which gets into the lungs and thats a health hazard. >> on top of that, its already a...