The U.S. and China are locked in a strategic rivalry across multiple domains. While much attention has been paid to semiconductors, artificial intelligence and military capabilities, an overlooked ...

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 ...

More than 20 years ago, the Chinese government instituted the Scientific Outlook on Development (SOD) program, tying local leaders' job performance evaluations to environmental quality improvements.

Efforts to clean up air pollution in China and across East Asia may have inadvertently contributed to a spike in global warming, a new study has found. The decline in aerosol emissions — which can ...

China’s soupy winter smog used to make global headlines, and despite a fall in air pollution exposure in recent years, they may have done invisible damage that is only now coming to light. China tops ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese researchers believe their latest technological breakthrough could help reduce the way countries battle fine particulate ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Environmental systems scientist at the University of Delaware. The pollution spike is typical of the post-monsoon season, from ...

New research has uncovered a potential unintended consequence of the electric vehicle transition in India and China, finding that sulfur dioxide emissions could actually increase over current levels ...

HONG KONG — U.S. embassies and consulates have stopped monitoring air quality abroad, ending a program that had provided essential public health data for more than a decade. The State Department said ...

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 ...