Eight miners have been confirmed dead in a colliery blast on Friday in Southwest China's Yunnan province, local government said.

The mercury density of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) will be reduced by 80 percent by 2015 in comparison to 2010, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Tuesday.

Carbon monoxide has been blamed for four deaths of workers in a cement plant in northwest China's Gansu Province on Wednesday, local officials said.

The air quality in Beijing and nearby regions hit dangerous levels Thursday, Beijing's environmental authorities said.

China's new spacecraft Shenzhou X is going to be launched during June to August this year, the office of country's space mission said on Thursday.

Six heavy polluting industries in 47 cities will gradually comply with special international emission limits on airborne pollutants, starting on March 1, a recent ministry-level environmental meeti

Thirty-eight people have been punished after a chemical leak contaminated a river in North China's Shanxi province last month, a working group that is responsible for addressing the incident said W

A 4.8-magnitude earthquake jolted Southwest China's Yunnan province Wednesday afternoon, damaging nearly 1,000 houses and affecting the lives of more than 5,000 local residents.

More than 660,000 people, mainly in Yunnan, Gansu and Hebei provinces, don't have adequate drinking water due to a drought, the People's Daily reported on Thursday.

Seven men have been confirmed dead after being trapped underground for more than 40 hours in a coal mine flood in north China's Shanxi Province, the local government said on Thursday.