About 80 percent of China's 367 cities with real-time air quality monitoring capabilities failed to reach national standards on small-particle pollution in the first three quarters of the year, a r

China is set to carry out a new plan to protect groundwater resources as the authorities try to cope with a mounting challenge of excessive use in most provincial areas, a government official said

Chinese scientists have discovered a "super material" that is as light as a balloon yet strong as metal.

BEIJING - The National Meteorological Center (NMC) on Sunday issued an orange alert for the approaching super typhoon Dujuan, which is expected to batter China's southeastern regions.

BEIJING - Authorities have uncovered and probed 39,900 cases of illegal land use in the first eight months of the year, statistics from the Ministry of Land and Resources showed Tuesday.

BEIJING - China said on Tuesday it would work with France to promote the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris to reach a new deal at the end of this year.

Health officials seeking to curb the country's fast increasing cancer rate are implementing a three-year nationwide plan that expands cancer screening, registration and prevention while reducing sm

JIUQUAN, Gansu - China on Monday launched its most sophisticated observation satellite, Gaofen-9, as part of the country's high-definition Earth observation project.

BEIJING - Particles responsible for much of China's air pollution decreased 17.4 percent during the first half of this year, an official said on Monday.

Liu Huaiyu raises more than 200 pigs in her farmyard, which houses one of the largest piggeries in her village, and the prodigious amount of manure they generate every day never bothers her.