BEIJING - China will build a space-air-ground integrated sensing system to detect and stop pollution, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection Tuesday.

BEIJING - China's environmental watchdog on Monday named and shamed Hohhot, capital of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region for poor air and water quality.

Most Chinese regions with pollution problems made significant progress last year in their efforts to improve air quality because of regulators' measures to curb smog, a report released on Friday sa

Southern China will likely continue to experience high temperatures, while some areas in northern regions may see some relief due to rainfall, China's meteorological authority said on Sunday.

More than half a million specially bred male mosquitoes are being released on an island in southern China every week to fight dengue fever.

BEIJING - Six provincial regions have jointly launched a resource recycling project to handle industrial waste in areas surrounding the Chinese capital.

Six workers were rescued from a flooded coal mine in Heilongjiang province on Monday morning, local authorities said.

BEIJING - Beijing will spend 460 million yuan ($74 million) this year to help curb pollution in two cities in neighboring Hebei province, according to a pact signed Wednesday.

FUZHOU - Scientists from China, Sweden and the United States have developed a high-yielding rice that can reduce methane emissions, a major greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, from paddies.

The record-breaking drought the Golden State is currently suffering from, and the mandatory water-conservation measures the government has imposed have reshaped the lifestyles of Californians, some