When leaders meet Thursday in Beijing, they might strike a climate deal, but there’s no guarantee it will be meaningful.

The speeding up of global warming has been largely driven by cuts to air pollution in China and wider East Asia, scientists ...

China has made its lack of environmental enforcement a core domain of the U.S.-China competition. Its pollution fuels its economic and geopolitical ascent, undermining America’s strategic ...

While trying to make the air cleaner in China and East Asia, regulators may have unintentionally triggered a surge in global ...

Steel and coal-to-chemical industries have been migrating towards energy-rich western, central and southern China.

The ozone layer, which is about 20 kilometers above the Earth's surface, helps shield the planet from harmful ultraviolet radiation. Near the ground, however, even relatively low amounts of ozone can ...

Anti-pollution steps in China — which jostles with India for the unenviable title of world’s most polluted country — has seen the number of smog-related deaths largely stabilize since 2005.