Polluting Plants Shut by Officials Found Still in Use
A recent round of inspection checks by China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has...
greenhouse gas emissions
Study: Air Pollution Deaths to Rise as Smog Clears
According to a study by researchers at Tsinghua University and the U.S.-based Health Effects...
Report Ties Coal Plants to China’s Water Shortage
A new report from Greenpeace on the coal industry’s impact on global water resources has...
U.N. Climate Talks Extended as Smog Swallows Beijing
The U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris has been extended by one day after parties...
Xi Jinping in Paris for Climate Change Summit
On Sunday, Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Paris to attend the United Nations COP21...
From DC, Xi Announces Next Steps on Climate Change
Following the joint announcement on carbon emission reduction made by Xi Jinping and Barack Obama...
Coal Consumption Higher Than Previously Thought
In January, China reported that the it’s coal use fell by just over 2 percent in 2014—the...
Beijing Submits Carbon Reduction Pledge to U.N.
Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to begin in Paris late this year, China...
CO2 Emissions Fall as China Cuts Coal
In January, just two months after Xi Jinping and Barack Obama jointly pledged to limit carbon...
China Soon to Be Top Carbon Emitter Since 1990
China will soon surpass the U.S. as the world’s top emitter of greenhouse gas, according to...
Coal Addiction Brings Scourge of Black Lung
China is by far the world’s largest consumer of coal, using more of the fossil fuel than the...
Does the New Climate Deal Let China “Do Nothing”?
The new climate goals that Barack Obama and Xi Jinping announced from Beijing last week met with...
U.S.-China Climate Deal “Heartening” But “Hyped”
This week’s landmark agreement on climate change between the U.S. and China, which promises...
Criticism and Praise for U.S.-China Climate Deal
Following the announcement yesterday of a “game-changing” bilateral U.S.-China...
Joint U.S.-China Agreement on Climate Change a “Game-Changer”
Just before hosting a joint press conference following APEC meetings in Beijing, Xi Jinping and...
Is China Still a ‘Developing’ Country?
After Barack Obama called on China to join in leading the world in carbon reduction at the UN...
What Do Chinese Dumplings Have to Do With Global Warming? [Updated]
As China faces the latest in a long line of food safety scandals, Nicola Twilley writes at The New...
China Urged To Limit Carbon Emissions For First Time
Adam Vaughan and Tania Branigan at The Guardian report the claim, later withdrawn, by a high-level...
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