China is praised for being a global alternative-enegy innovator. But its coal mining industry holds the real power.

A global onslaught of cheap Chinese green power is upending everything in its path. No one is ready for its repercussions.

In a consequential move for the global climate, China committed Wednesday to reduce its planet-warming pollution by 7% to 10% from peak levels over the next decade. China’s new economy-wide goal takes ...

China’s climate policy, amid hints that its emissions could peak and as the government publishes targets for the next 5 years ...

"China has been doing domestically very well in terms of renewables, so solar and wind in particular. It also implies that we need to phase down and ultimately phase out fossil fuels. And China ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -China's new climate pledge "falls well short" and will make it harder to reach global targets to slow climate change, the European Union's climate chief said on Thursday, as the ...

BEIJING — China and the European Union have issued a joint call to action on climate change during an otherwise tense bilateral summit in Beijing on Thursday riven with major disagreements over trade ...

While climate policy in major industrialized democracies is increasingly treated as part of a culture war, China is treating it as an economic strategy. Beijing’s new pledge to cut greenhouse gas ...

EUREKA, Calif., and ZHANGBEI COUNTY, China– Twenty miles off the misty northern coast of California, off of Humboldt Bay, there's a plan to build offshore wind turbines to power more than two million ...

President Xi Jinping’s pledge to cut China’s total greenhouse gas emissions by 7–10 per cent by 2035 is a politically significant step for a still middle-income country. Yet the update falls short of ...

Environmental phenomena and their consequences can disrupt social structures and destabilize political systems. An ...