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HARRY BAKER, LIVE SCIENCE 15 MARCH 2021 Beijing has been enveloped in one of its most severe sandstorms in over a decade, which has combined with air pollution to create a toxic, gritty haze that turned skies orange and made the skyline disappear.    The sandstorm hit the Chinese capital on Monday morning (March 15) after gale-force winds from Mongolia blew dust from the Gobi desert over the border. In Mongolia, 341 people are missing after the same sandstorm blew across the country, according to Worsening the situation, Beijing's air pollution has been rising in recent weeks as the cou...

Starting from Monday to 8 a.m. Tuesday, affected by cold fronts and heavy winds, floating sand and dust are expected to sweep parts of Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing and Tianjin, Xinhua news agency quoted the National Meteorological Center as saying in a forecast.Some

Flights at Beijing Capital International Airport and Beijing Daxing International Airport cancelled.

A yellow alert was issued by the CMA, which said the sandstorm spread from Inner Mongolia into Beijing.

This morning, the sky was yellow with sand and dust, but what exactly is it all made up of?