Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years ago, Beijing's Liangma riverbanks would have been smog-choked and deserted in winter, but these days they are dotted ...

China is cleaning up its sulfur pollution, but the drop in airborne particles is revealing additional warming that concerns scientists.

Chinese researchers believe their latest technological breakthrough could help reduce the way countries battle fine particulate matter pollution. The Beijing Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau ...

(Phys.org) —A combined team of researchers from the U.S. and China has found a direct link between gaseous pollutants from motorized vehicles and industrial emissions and the thick haze that often ...

Everyone knows that China pollutes. The reality of Chinese smog, waste, and pollution is beyond dispute. But how much is an entirely open question. Defining “pollution” itself is a difficult task. The ...

China is cracking down on pollution like never before, with new green policies so hard-hitting and extensive they can be felt across the world, transforming everything from electric vehicle demand to ...

Over in Foreign Policy, Christina Larson has an interview with the New York-based Chinese-American artist Zhang Hongtu. Zhang, who grew up in China under Mao Zedong but moved to the U.S. in 1982, is a ...

To the list of China’s environmental horrors, add one: an 8-year-old with lung cancer. Doctors at a hospital in coastal Jiangsu province blamed the girl’s condition on pollution, according to a state ...

A new MIT study reports that, if China follows through with its international pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, every one of its provinces will experience benefits to air quality and human ...