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China is notorious for having some of the worst air pollution on the planet. In 2014 the country declared war on smog, and the results are in: China is killing it. In just four years, pollution is down 32 percent on average....

Many of China's major cities are devastated by pollution - but the nation is making efforts to clean up its skies and waterways. The past year has seen factory closures and the creation of an environmental police force in...

Is China at last cracking down on factory pollution? The country's Ministry of Environment inspectors have charged, fined, or reprimanded officials from over 80,000 factories in 10 provinces in the last year, according to...

At the Paris climate talks, China pledge to have carbon emissions climax by 2030 and decrease after that date. The world’s largest carbon emitter utilized coal to power rapid economic growth; in 2012 they used almost as...

The world’s biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions plans to shutter a thousand coal-fired power plants before the end of this year. China’s National Energy Administration made the announcement Monday, as part of the...

The world’s biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions plans to shutter a thousand coal-fired power plants before the end of this year. China’s National Energy Administration made the announcement Monday, as part of the...

Coal is the biggest source of China’s air pollution, but straw burning is also an issue of major concern. Although straw burning is banned, many farmers continue the age-old tradition to turn leftover straw into ash fertilizer....

As negotiators from around the globe work towards an international climate agreement in Paris, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases declares war on air pollution...

Yes, you read that correctly. Vitality Air, a start-up in Alberta, Canada, is capturing fresh, pollution-free air from the Rocky Mountains and selling it for up to $32 CAD a bottle. They have launched a successful campaign...

China is supposed to be making major cutbacks on fossil fuels, in an effort to reduce carbon emissions but a new government report indicates that previous figures haven’t exactly been accurate...

http://inhabitat.com/tag/china/ China’s enormous pollution problem isn’t news. Earlier this year, the nation set ambitious goals to peak GHG emissions by 2030, http://inhabitat.com/u-s-aims-for-28-percent-cut-in-emissions-by-2025-in-promise-to-un...

We all know that pollution in China is bad, but we didn't know it was this bad. A new study has found that air pollution is killing about 4,000 people per day in China. Using newly available data, physicists at Berkeley Earth,...

If you remember anything from your first economics class, it probably has something to do with supply and demand. The more abundant a product, the lower the price drops. In the case of rapidly growing technologies like solar...

  China’s environment can’t improve to at least half of it’s pollution is cut. With an economy growing at a breakneck speed, China’s need for power and transportation can’t keep up. The answer has been to create...

Despite taking steps to limit carbon output, Beijing’s toxic air is still breaking records. In fact, Beijing’s air is so bad that last Thursday, it was literally off the charts. Fine air particulates reached beyond the...