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For years China was notorious for deforestation. To propel their expanding economy, they chopped down trees. The economy grew, but water sources were tainted, the air polluted, and animal habitats demolished. Only a few years...

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...

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,...

While environment-related headlines regarding China often focus on the devastating smog that coats major cities in the nation, there's reason for optimism where their energy-future is concerned: namely, the IEA expects that...

While environment-related headlines regarding China often focus on the devastating smog that coats major cities in the nation, there's reason for optimism where their energy-future is concerned: namely, the IEA expects that...

China wants to bulldoze more than 700 mountains in order to make way for more buildings, but scientists are unsurprisingly concerned about the plan. Never before has mankind attempted mountaintop removal of this scale and...