Levels of pollution have soared past the levels considered hazardous by the World Health Organisation, as dense smog hangs over Beijing and 30 other cities in northern and eastern China. As Beijing ...

San Francisco becomes the first U.S. city to achieve major reductions in PM2.5 and NO₂ pollutants.

With less than a month to go until the start of the Beijing Olympics, the air in the Chinese capital remains gray and smoggy. While the International Olympic Committee has generally praised the city’s ...

BEIJING -- The Chinese capital was shrouded in thick gray smog Sunday, 12 days before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. One expert warned that drastic measures enacted to cut vehicle ...

According to the analysis, Beijing and Warsaw recorded the largest reduction in PM2.5, a dangerous fine particulate pollutant, cutting levels by more than 45%.

BEIJING -- Beijing's Olympic shutdown begins today, a drastic plan to lift the Chinese capital's gray shroud of pollution three weeks ahead of the games. Half of Beijing's 3.3 million vehicles will be ...

BEIJING (AP) – Beijing authorities have completed a network of monitors that will more accurately measure air quality in the pollution-ridden city after being pushed into it by public pressure and ...

Arne Ljungqvist, chairman of the IOC's Medical Commission, said that an analysis by four independent experts of data supplied by Beijing organisers found heat and humidity might be a greater threat to ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Authorities in the Chinese capital fined 652 industrial facilities for breaching environmental regulations in the first four months of the year as it stepped up efforts to fight ...