Now the main challenges lie in regional disparities, increased coal-chemical use and VOC emissions China’s new national air quality standards set in March by the environment ministry require annual ...

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 ...

Fifteen years ago, Beijing's Liangma riverbanks would have been smog-choked and deserted in winter, but these days they are dotted with families and exercising pensioners most mornings. The turnaround ...

China is deepening a crackdown on perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and microplastics with a new ...

Construction-related activities are responsible for roughly half of China's premature deaths linked to ambient fine particulate matter (PM 2.5), according to a new national-scale analysis. By tracing ...

CHINA STILL burns a hell of a lot of coal. But since the “air-pocalypse” of 2013 it has worked on doing so in a much less brimstone-y way. A large proportion of the tiny particles that make up air ...