Air pollution causes cooling by reflecting sunlight or by changing the properties of clouds so they reflect more sunlight.

Efforts to clean up air pollution in China and across East Asia may have inadvertently contributed to a spike in global ...

Global warming has picked up pace since around 2010, leading to the recent string of record warm years. Why this is happening ...

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

Although China’s carbon dioxide emissions have soared in the past 30 years and the country has become the largest greenhouse gas contributor, China is responsible for just 10% of global warming ...

Climate experts at Global Energy Monitor, TransitionZero and elsewhere calculate that limiting global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius will require China to close 600 of its 1,082 coal plants by ...

Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.

Bush aims to convene 15 top polluting nations, including China, to develop long-term goals to combat global warming. Some critics fear Bush's proposal for separate talks could rival U.N. efforts.

When it comes to heating up the planet, not all greenhouse gases are created equal. They vary widely in their global warming potential (GWP), a measure of how much infrared thermal radiation a ...

This brings us back to China’s demographic crisis and global warming. As Paul Krugman wrote in a recent column, China is going to have to make a massive adjustment in its economy in the years ahead.