Planting “an army of trees” in the Chinese capital Beijing could help combat the city’s severe air pollution crisis, but such a strategy should not be...
City authorities in Paris have offered free public transport to all residents this weekend after the French capital was shrouded in severe pollution. Parisians are being...
The Chinese government has begun a “war on pollution” in order to improve the quality of life of its citizens. Under new measures, polluters could be...
The Chinese government is being sued by a resident of the northern city of Shijiazhuang, who claims the region’s Environmental Protection Bureau is shunning its responsibilities...
After enduring five days of choking smog, Beijing is to remain in a state of high alert as dangerous levels of pollution are forecast to hang...
Beijing has issued a three-day emergency pollution alert, warning residents to keep outdoor activities to a minimum and ordering some industries to limit production. The Chinese...
China is set to offer financial rewards to companies in an effort to encourage them to clean up their operations, after setting up a $1.65 billion...
China welcomed the year of the horse on Thursday night with fewer fireworks than usual, in an effort to emit less air pollution in its smog-choked...
People in Beijing have been told to stay indoors, as dangerous levels of air pollution are recorded in the city. Pollution levels were said to be...
China’s former health minister Chen Zhu has estimated that up to 500,000 premature deaths are caused each year by air pollution – now the fourth biggest...
Mark Wilson looks back at the events of December 1952, when the Great Smog descended upon London, and at how air pollution has worsened globally in...
As eastern China suffered record high levels of air pollution, Chinese fossil fuel shares slid whilst environmental protection stocks received a boost. Authorities in Shanghai ordered...
Beijing, Shanghai and Mexico City have each kickstarted carbon credit schemes in an effort to boost clean technologies and push companies towards less polluting practices. Over...
The Chinese government has launched a new plan to reduce the number of coal-fired power plants and improve air quality in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong regions....
Pollution in China has reached such extreme levels that the authorities have proposed executing polluters, writes Clare Brook of WHEB Asset Management. A recent piece of...