Clean Air Policy

China will steer local governments away from the pursuit of economic growth at all costs and beef up their powers to punish polluters as part of a campaign to reverse the damage done by three decades of unchecked expansion.

Five years later, what lessons have been learned from the Christmas coal ash spill? David Biello investigates

A choking smog across much of northern China threatens not just the health of local residents, but also of major coal projects globally that are still on the drawing board.

Thousands of delegates are gathered in Warsaw for another round of climate talks. On the other side of the globe, indigenous leaders say they're done with the U.N. talks

The Montreal Protocol aimed to fix the ozone hole but it also delayed global warming. David Biello reports

Unique turbines that float on the surface rather than rest on the seafloor can be placed in deeper waters

Children exposed in the womb to two chlorinated chemicals widely found in the environment are more likely to develop asthma by the age of 20, according to new research in Denmark

The gap between what has been emitted and what can be emitted to give global warming a chance of remaining under 2 degrees C widens by another gigaton of CO₂

China's capital, Beijing, infamous for its thick smog and heavy traffic, will slash the city's new car sales quotas by almost 40 percent next year, as it looks to curb vehicle emissions and hazardous levels of pollution, the city government website said.

A new global agreement is supposed to be signed in Paris in 2015 but, in order for that to happen, much work remains to be done

The message from Beijing could not be clearer: China needs to shift to a more balanced economy that is socially and environmentally sustainable.

(Release at 2301 GMT, Sunday Nov 3) Simple measures to reduce pollution from cooking stoves in developing nations could save a million lives a year and help slow global warming, a World Bank study showed on Monday.