Beijing's smog is expected to arrive earlier this year, said China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP).The smog, which often occurs in late autumn and winter, has already returned to the capital city in early September. Air quality started to worsen Saturday mor......
President Xi Jinping has reiterated the importance of combating air pollution, and emphasized that a blue sky also brings happiness. To improve the quality of air we breathe, emission control technologies have to be improved to target the source of pollutants, for which ......
China has pledged to cut PM2.5 concentration by at least 15 percent year-on-year in 28 northern cities from October to March to meet smog reduction targets, the top environmental authority said.A new Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regional environmental protection bureau will be ......
China’s 13th Five-Year Plan on Ecological & Environmental Protection, released on December 5, 2016, indicates that China will accelerate the design, revision, and implementation of emission standards for non-road vehicles (e.g., agricultural tractors, loaders, and excava......
China has cooperated with South Korea and Japan to tackle air pollution and prevent sand storms, the environment minister said in a trilateral meeting on Friday.Environment ministers from China, South Korea, and Japan met in Suwon, on the outskirts of Seoul of South Kore......
BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- China will implement a plan to control the country's major air pollutants, PM2.5 and ozone (O3), the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) said Tuesday.While reducing the level of hazardous fine particle matter PM2.5 is still the top pri......
Stress hormones appear to increase; changes seen in blood componentsChinese scientists have discovered that exposure to PM2.5 could significantly increase stress hormones in humans, as well as cause metabolic changes in blood glucose, amino acids and lipids.The team, led......
China’s urbanization is transitioning from an era of sprawling expansion to the pursuit of livability. Only cities that are designed and constructed for people can be livable and sustainable. In an effort to understand how changes to the urban physical environment can im......
China's National Development and Reform Commission plans to establish a national carbon-trading system and launch a carbon emissions market this November, according to a report by Scientific American.The NDRC said in its report a carbon emissions quota control system wil......
Peter Liang urges the government to follow some foreign countries' example and gives a cut-off date on fossil fuelsWhile Hong Kong drags its feet in combating worsening air pollution, the Chinese mainland and other major economies such as France, the United Kingdom and I......
