China's sweeping efforts to clean up its air have delivered one of the biggest public health success stories of recent decades. Since the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan was launched ...

Researchers reveal that while stricter air quality policies are cutting pollution-related cancer deaths in the U.S., Japan, and South Korea, China’s persistently high rates and global aging trends ...

The Supreme Court’s ruling in the tariff case this year was a painful blow for advocates of using protectionism to reshape ...

To the list of China’s environmental horrors, add one: an 8-year-old with lung cancer. Doctors at a hospital in coastal Jiangsu province blamed the girl’s condition on pollution, according to a state ...

The tariffs have hit China where it hurts, but they could do even more damage by targeting China’s formidable levels of pollution. But the tariffs have given America something else: an economic weapon ...

A new MIT study reports that, if China follows through with its international pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, every one of its provinces will experience benefits to air quality and human ...

China's electric-car revolution is about to collide with a far messier problem: what to do with all the worn-out batteries. What began as a heavily subsidized push to get drivers into EVs—nearly 60% ...

A well-known Chinese performance artist, “Nut Brother” (a pseudonym), has been incommunicado since June 30, 2025, soon after he returned to Kunming from a trip investigating industrial pollution in ...