China's economy is the second largest in the ... of Environmental Protection issued a report that said two-thirds of groundwater and one-third of surface water was unsafe for human contact.

Climate change and construction activity have resulted in high pollution in China's rivers like the Mekong (above). An ...

In a cave of southern China, some “large” creatures swam through “heavily polluted” water. Something about their brown, scaly bodies caught the attention of visiting scientists — and for ...

The rate at which the planet is warming has sped up since 2010, and now researchers say that China's efforts to clean up air ...

According to Samset, China 's cleanup has likely added about 0.05°C (0.09°F) to the global temperature increase per decade and contributed 0.07°C of total warming since 1850. "When we started looking ...

Winter has returned to northern China. And so has the country's trademark, deadly smog. The central government recently declared its first-ever national red alert for air quality, with pollution ...

The combined effect of urea and pesticide pollution has had a devastating ... Studies have shown that a significant portion of China's groundwater is contaminated with high levels of nitrates ...

(Source: Council on Foreign Relations) New industries bring higher paid jobs and more money but they can also bring pollution. Many of the cities in China are amongst the most polluted in the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A new study has emerged from UC Berkeley stating that 1.6 million deaths (roughly 17% of yearly casualties) in China are directly related to air pollution.