11 maps to mark the COP21 climate talks
12-09-2015
Elsa Wenzel
Verbose. Indecipherable. Incroyable. Those are just a few ways to describe the dizzyingly complex COP21 climate negotiations in Paris this year.
China: The electronic wastebasket of the world
07-02-2015
Ivan Watson
Did you ever wonder what happens to your old laptop or cellphone when you throw it away?
Chances are some of your old electronic junk will end up in China.
Asian Cities’ Air Quality Getting Worse, Experts Warn
06-12-2015
Bettina Wassener
HONG KONG — Air pollution has worsened markedly in Asian cities in recent years and presents a growing threat to human health, according to experts at a conference that began on Wednesday.
China and Australia top list of 'carbon bomb' projects
05-08-2015
Oliver Milman
China and Australia top a global list of planned oil, gas and coal projects that will act as "carbon bombs" and push the planet towards catastrophic climate change, a Greenpeace report warned on Tuesday.
Air pollution scourge underestimated, green energy can help: U.N.
04-18-2015
Alister Doyle
Air pollution is an underestimated scourge that kills far more people than AIDS and malaria and a shift to cleaner energy could easily halve the toll by 2030, U.N. officials said on Tuesday.
Environmental threats could push billions into extreme poverty, warns UN
04-10-2015
Claire Provost
The number of people living in extreme poverty could increase by up to 3 billion by 2050 unless urgent action is taken to tackle environmental challenges, a major UN report warned on Thursday.
China burns half of coal consumption worldwide, figures show
04-03-2015
Adam Vaughan
China now burns nearly as much coal as the rest of the world combined.
The country's appetite for the carbon-intensive fuel rose by 9% in 2011, to 3.8bn tonnes, meaning it now accounts for 47% of worldwide coal consumption.
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4 percent of Chinese cities report clean air
03-24-2014
Zhu Ningzhu
BEIJING, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Only three out of the 74 Chinese cities that were monitored for air quality last year reported clean air, while the large majority suffered various degrees of pollution, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said on Tuesday.