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...
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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 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...
Air pollution from China’s coal plants was responsible for over 250,000 premature deaths in 2011, while also harming hundreds of thousands of Chinese children, according to...
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...
China is inadequately prepared in the fight against the impacts of climate change because of a lack of planning and public awareness, the government admitted on...
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...
Particulate pollutants in Shanghai have reached unprecedented levels, with authorities telling citizens to stay indoors and wear masks if outside. China’s financial hub has been swallowed...
An unnamed eight-year-old girl has become the youngest person in China to be diagnosed with lung cancer, with her doctor saying that air pollution is to...
A Dutch artist has designed a system that he says could solve China’s air pollution problem, using what is essentially a giant static vacuum cleaner. Daan...
As many as 9 out of 10 of people living in European cities are breathing air that is so polluted that it can shorten their life...