Counting the cost of decades of breakneck development, Chinese scientists and policy-makers outlined the daunting challenges they face in trying to halt the country's environmental degradation.

With global warming hitting the Tibetan plateau hard, scientists gather to plan an international research campaign to understand and mitigate changes at the 'third pole'.

A crisis is developing beneath China

Yunnan's worst drought for many years has been exacerbated by destruction of forest cover and a history of poor water management.

When American and Chinese scientists agreed to measure pollution and dust over China, nobody foresaw how difficult it would be.

China's leading conservation centre is facing down an onslaught of rubber plantations.

Beijing conference tackles how to help developing countries.

In an effort to avoid a food crisis as the population grows, China is putting its weight behind genetically modified strains of the country's staple food crop. Jane Qiu explores the reasons for the unprecedented push.

Climate change is coming fast and furious to the Tibetan plateau.