Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province, plans to shut down 800 coal-fired furnaces this year, replacing them with natural gas or electric furnaces to reduce air pollution.

Despite the bright blue, sunny skies that much of Israel woke up to on Thursday morning, a fog of air pollution blanketed the country as a result of the previous night’s Lag Ba’omer bonfires.

Beijing has extended a ban on outdoor barbecues to restaurants operating in some suburban areas as it tries to improve its notoriously poor air quality in case it wins the 2022 Winter Olympics, sta

China will ban unofficial weather forecasts starting Friday, as citizens criticised the government for further encroaching on a seemingly harmless hobby.

Japan and China agreed Wednesday to step up their cooperation in combating air pollution when their environment ministers held their first talks in three years in the latest sign of thawing relatio