Scripps researchers found that the river is harming nearby communities by releasing airborne chemicals, including hydrogen sulfide gas.

Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of ...

Four years after the Fundão dam collapse—the world's largest mining disaster, which occurred in 2015 in the city of Mariana ...

At a time the world faces its fair share of environmental challenges, one conservation triumph is spreading some much-needed ...

ADB has approved a CNY1.068 billion ($150 million equivalent) loan to pilot its first nature credit mechanism in Gulin County, Sichuan Province, in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The financing ...

Pigs, rats, cats and mongooses, all brought to the island decades earlier by humans, were to blame for their demise, preying ...

Beijing drastically reduced air pollution levels in around a decade. Behind its success is a comprehensive policy framework that can be replicated ...

More than 47,000 species face extinction today, a figure that grows daily as habitats shrink and human pressures intensify. Among them, twelve species teeter so precariously on the edge that their ...

BEIJING — A rare, nearly blind white dolphin that survived for millions of years is "functionally extinct," an international expedition declared Wednesday after ending a fruitless six-week search of ...

Climate change is accelerating the reorganization of river-lake systems on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, reshaping hydrological and ecological processes in the "Asian Water Tower." A study led by Prof.

Inspectors with China's high-profile central environmental inspection teams have urged seven provincial-level regions along the Yangtze River to beef up their waste disposal capabilities and enhance ...