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...
Burberry has committed to making its products toxic-free from 2020, following several weeks of pressure from Greenpeace East Asia. This comes after an investigation by the...
If China is to do its fair share to curb climate change, it must spend an additional 2 trillion yuan (£199 billion) on efforts to cut...
Gerald Kutney picks out some of the highlights from his book, Carbon Politics and the Failure of the Kyoto Protocol, published this month by Routledge. In...
New research has found that just seven countries, including the UK, account for 63% of climate change. Relative to population size, the UK has pumped the...
Western countries are outsourcing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to countries like China through the production of cheap goods that are exported to the US and Europe,...
The cities of tomorrow can learn from the example of Singapore by embracing density in order to be more resource efficient, says a new report. The...
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...
Campaign group Greenpeace East Asia has found that many items of children’s clothing from high street brands contain hazardous chemicals. The organisation is now calling on...
All this week on BBC Radio 4, the economist Jim O’Neill, who coined the term BRICS to refer collectively to Brazil, Russia, India, China and South...
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...
China is seeing an increase in its number of high net-worth individuals, driven by relative stable economic growth over the last five years amid the global...
The Chinese government has revealed that 3.33m hectares of its land – an area nearly as large as Belgium – is too polluted to grow crops,...
Multi-millionaires continued to donate large sums of money in 2013, with donations expected to grow again this year. The 10 biggest donors of the year pledged...
China has embarked on a new project that will see the country double the number of wind turbines it uses to generate electricity over the next...