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 ...

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

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

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

Research shows that green technology innovation significantly reduces PM2.5 and PM10 levels in China's river basins, ...

In just 15 years, China has risen to the top of the global clean energy industry, leaving European countries trailing far ...

PRC partnership significantly improved air quality in the Greater Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region through a $2.55 billion ...

China invested 6.8 trillion yuan ($940 billion) in clean energy in 2024, approaching the $1.12 trillion in global investment in fossil fuels, according to a new analysis for U.K.-based research ...

Republicans’ tax and policy bill could give China a bigger lead in the race to develop renewable energy technologies.

China's power system has notched up several new clean energy generation records during the January to March quarter of 2025, cementing the country's position as the global leader in clean ...

China has nearly 700,000 clean energy patents, more than half of the world's total. Beijing’s rise as a clean power behemoth is altering economies and shifting alliances in emerging countries as ...