Policy makers and scientists from China, the US and other countries recently gathered to discuss China’s plans to create a unified...

For years, reports of illegal fishing activities have dogged China’s distant-water fishing fleet. Now, China is significantly tightening...

The once critically endangered giant panda has rebounded in numbers in recent years, representing one of the most successful restoration...

Calls from Australia for an investigation into China ’s role as the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a coal trade war...

Over the first half of the year, more coal power generation capacity has shut down than has started operation around the world for the...

Shark fin soup is said to be the food of emperors, but a new study finds this “luxury” dish may not be so favorable to the person who...

Ecuador has sounded the alarm after its navy discovered around 260 mostly Chinese-flagged fishing vessels in the ocean surrounding the...

Weeks of torrential downpours in China have caused the worst flooding of the Yangtze River in the eastern province of Jiangxi since 1998,...

From cellphones to missile guidance systems, rare-earth metals are an essential component of thousands of consumer products and military...

According to a study published in the US science journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers in China have...

Authorities in Inner Mongolia, a region in China, issued a warning on July 5 after a hospital reported one confirmed case of the Bubonic...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, popularly known as CITES, is a rare animal: an international environmental...

People usually associate deforestation and illegal logging with tropical rainforests in developing countries such as those in the Amazon...

In early June, it was widely reported that the Chinese government had banned pangolin scales in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and...

The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic eased air pollution levels as a result of lockdown measures around the world, especially in...

Pangolin scales have been removed from a 2020 listing of ingredients approved for use in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The move has...

Shark finning poses a significant threat to the ocean’s ecosystem and levels of carbon dioxide production in marine environments....

It’s the world’s biggest importer of logs, legal and illegal alike. A behemoth that drives an engine of timber harvesting across the...

The government in China is offering buyouts for animals on wildlife farms, and to help farmers change their agricultural practices, in an...

When we talk about ozone, the image that most often springs to mind is the ozone layer in the stratosphere that protects us from harmful...