BEIJING’S acting Mayor Cai Qi unveiled a new environmental police squad at the weekend to root out illegal burning in the city. The announcement marked the latest official response to widespread ...

Only seven countries met World Health Organization (WHO) air quality standards last year, data showed on Tuesday, as ...

BEIJING: Tougher law enforcement has reduced the number of environmental offenders in Beijing in recent years, but more companies need to adapt to the emissions standards in China's capital, its ...

CITIES in northern China took emergency action yesterday to combat choking smog, limiting the number of cars allowed on the roads and temporarily closing factories. More than 700 companies halted ...

All but one of the world’s top 20 most polluted cities last year were in Asia, a new study shows. The majority of these ...

The program had used sensors at more than 80 U.S. embassies and consulates to track air quality, mostly in places where such ...

FILE - A bird flies through a thick layer of smog in New Delhi, India ... along a highway shot through a glass window during ...

Most of the world breathes unhealthy air. Poor monitoring, industrial emissions, and weak regulations worsen air pollution.

According to Kaipullai, China’s rise was anything but linear. Its progress felt almost nonexistent for years, only to explode ...

In memoir, Sarah Wynn-Williams criticized the company's readiness to develop an "anti-freedom of expression version of ...

The U.S. State Department said it would stop publishing global air pollution data as part of attempts to shrink federal spending. The program set a worldwide standard for measuring air quality.

The U.S. government will stop sharing air quality data gathered from its embassies and consulates, worrying local scientists ...