Thousands of Mongolians stood in frigid weather Saturday for the second time this winter to protest the government response to smog that routinely blankets their capital. An estimated 7,000 people, many of them wearing air masks and gas masks underneath thick winter hats, braved subzero temperatures. Standing in the city’s central Sukhbataar Square, they held black balloons and protest signs. Pollution readings in one ger district Friday were occasionally nearly 30 times above the levels considered safe by the World Health Organization. Icy winds that whipped through the square during Saturday’s protest cleared some of the previous day’s pollution.

Source: Washington Post January 28, 2017 23:53 UTC