In March 2021, Mongolia experienced its worst sandstorm in a decade, which started in the Gobi Desert and reached most of northern China and even western parts of South Korea.

Harbin, the capital of China's northernmost Heilongjiang Province, was affected by Mongolian sandstorms on Monday following heavy snowfall over the weekend. Beginning Sunday night and into Monday ...

Beijing used to be hit by sandstorms regularly in the spring, but less so in the winter. The last time it saw a sandstorm so late in the year was in 2015. The sandstorm originated in Mongolia and ...

The Chinese capital Beijing woke on Sunday morning shrouded in thick dust carrying extremely high levels of hazardous particles, as a second sandstorm in two weeks hit the city due to winds from ...

Residents in Beijing awoke to a dystopian scene on Sunday as a sandstorm swept through the Chinese capital, turning the sky yellow and the sun a haunting shade of blue. This is the second ...

The sand and dust from Mongolia have moved east and south over China’s northern regions, carried by the cold high pressure at the back of the cyclones.

Beijing and large swaths of northern China woke to choking sand and dust on Monday, as a winter sandstorm sent air pollution levels off the charts. A thick cloud of dust blanketed the Chinese ...

The sandstorm originated in Mongolia and gradually moved south. Early on Monday morning, the Central Meteorological Observatory issued a blue alert for sandstorms — the lowest level in a four ...