China's sweeping efforts to clean up its air have delivered one of the biggest public health success stories of recent decades. Since the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan was launched ...

Fifteen years ago, Beijing's Liangma riverbanks would have been smog-choked and deserted in winter, but these days they are dotted with families and exercising pensioners most mornings. The turnaround ...

According to the World Health organization, around 2.4 million deaths that occur in China every year can be attributed to air pollution. The thick pollution found in many rapidly developing Chinese ...

China burns a great deal of coal to produce both heat and electricity contributing to the pollution problem in many cities. Public discontent over the lack of progress in tackling China’s pollution ...

Zhang pointed to two problems facing the country regarding the degree of pollution being seen. One is the decline in quality of arable farmland, and two, the continuing excessive use of fertilizers ...

You wouldn't think cleaning up pollution would have the opposite effect of making things worse, but that may well be the case with east Asia and, specifically, China. The country and region have made ...