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

China’s smog reducing efforts improved public health - but may have accelerated global warming by reducing sunlight-reflecting aerosols.

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

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

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 ...

But the pledges made in Paris by China and the world’s other main emitters of global-warming gasses are far from enough. Fulfilling them may still allow temperatures to rise by 3-3.5°C, which ...

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 ...

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.

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

"Air pollution actually masks global warming," says Ramanathan. "When you clean up very polluted air, as China is doing during these Olympics, it has a direct impact on global warming and ...

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.