10 June 2022
It's time for China to put national pride aside and let another country host the UN COP15 biodiversity conference, for the sake of wildlife, plants and habitats worldwide, says Adam Vaughan
28 October 2021
China is responsible for 27 per cent of global emissions, making its newly announced climate plan an important move ahead of the COP26 climate summit
25 August 2021
Clearer skies from restrictions on traffic during the covid-19 pandemic seem to have brought forward China’s spring by around eight days, resulting in so much vegetation growth that the country was almost a fifth "greener"
15 June 2021
One of the companies behind a new, French-designed nuclear reactor at Taishan in Guangdong, China, has written to the US government warning of an “imminent radiological threat” at the plant, but there doesn't appear to be any danger
22 April 2021
China will have to clean up its entire power sector by 2050 if the world is to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of holding global warming to 1.5°C – meaning its carbon emissions must peak much earlier than currently planned
23 September 2020
China surprised the world yesterday when president Xi Jinping told the United Nations general assembly that the country would achieve carbon neutrality before 2060
3 August 2020
China’s conservation efforts to save giant pandas have paid off for the bears, but miserably failed leopards and other carnivores that share their home
3 June 2020
Ideas about natural capital and ecosystems services have altered how some governments value biodiversity – they could also help us build back better after lockdown
2 April 2020
China’s ban on eating and trading wildlife due to the coronavirus crisis could become law within the next three months, according to conservationists
3 February 2020
The economic shock waves of the coronavirus outbreak may eclipse those caused by the 2003 SARS pandemic, as analysts downgrade forecasts for China's growth
