About 80 percent of rivers in urban regions in China have been found to be filthy

BEIJING -- Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli met with Brian Deese, senior advisor to US President Barack Obama, in Beijing on Tuesday, agreeing to cooperate more closely to address climate change.

The sex-booster herb Schisandraceae, widely used in traditional Chinese medicine for 2,000 years, has shown promise in treating HIV/AIDS, according to a 20-year-long study led by the Kunming Instit

The large majority of over 300 experts and industry representatives in China who were surveyed believe that carbon pricing will affect the investment of companies with large carbon emissions, pushi

BEIJING - China is planning to be the first country to land a lunar probe on the far side of the moon, a Chinese lunar probe scientist said Tuesday.

CHANGSHA - More than 16,000 people were evacuated as rainstorms lashed parts of central China's Hunan Province, local authorities said on Sunday.

Beijing has seen a lot of azure-blue skies since Aug 20, when the government began taking strict control of industrial and automobile emissions ahead of last week's military parade.

MADRID - A wildfire which began at around mid-day on Sunday has destroyed around 2,000 hectares of woodland in the Community of Galicia in the northwest of Spain.

BEIJING - Ozone overtook PM2.5 to become the main air pollutant in China in July, and may remain so until the end of October, according to a report released Monday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has welcomed new restrictions on tobacco advertising that take effect in China on Tuesday.