He’s created dance floors that generate electricity while you boogie as well as glow-in-the-dark solar-powered lighting for highways. Now it seems diamond rings made out of smog are what’s next for ...

New Delhi's 'smog tower' uses 40 giant fans to purify the air in a 0.4 square mile radius. Air quality is a major problem in New Delhi, and the city's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal called it a "gas ...

"The Smog Free Tower is about the dream of clean air for everyone," says Roosegarde. "The goal for now is to be able to make permanent versions of the towers and integrate them into the urban ...

Smog affects many major cities around the world and can cause health problems for those breathing it in. To highlight this issue, Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde is building what he calls the world's ...

BEIJING – In a city where smog routinely blankets the streets, a Dutch artist has offered an eccentric solution: a 6-meter (20-foot) metal structure that takes in smog and expels cleaner air. Daan ...

Beijing residents are all too familiar with air pollution. The Chinese capital ranks 76 in the top 100 most polluted cities in the world. On high pollution days, dense smog permeates the sky, ...

Studio Roosegaarde‘s smog-sucking vacuum tower may actually be cleaning up the air in China. The Smog Free Tower has been installed in Beijing, a city notorious for its air pollution, and the ...

During his visit to Beijing in 2013, Daan Roosegaarde, Dutch artist, designer, and innovator, discovered the air quality in the city was so poor that children were kept indoors and he was unable to ...

As one solution to urban air pollution, Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has invented a large tower that eats smog. The tower debuted in Rotterdam in 2015, and then went to four Chinese cities in 2016.

One of the 21st century’s bleakest problems, air pollution leads to the premature death of 3 million people every year, according to a study published in the journal Nature last year. That number is ...

First installed in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and then moving onto Beijing in 2016, the pollution-sucking Smog Free Tower is now headed for a park in Poland. Part of a wider project aimed to highlight ...

Beijing — In a city where smog routinely blankets the streets, a Dutch artist has offered an eccentric solution: a 23-foot metal structure that takes in smog and expels cleaner air. Daan Roosegaarde’s ...