An curved arrow pointing right. After testing a major reservoir that supplies drinking water to Beijing, the World Health Organization has discovered that the water had lead levels 20 times the ...

The appearance of thousands of dead pigs in the rivers around Shanghai highlights China's water-pollution problem. Richard Brubaker of Collective Responsibility tells the WSJ's Deborah Kan what the ...

It said emergency responders had controlled the pollution source and treated river water to remove the thallium, adding that concentrations had soon returned to normal in downstream areas. China has ...

Satellite data from NASA show a significant drop in pollution levels over China after large parts of the country were shut down because of the coronavirus. WSJ explains how some analysts are ...

The rate at which the planet is warming has sped up since 2010, and now researchers say that China's efforts to clean up air ...

An acidic waste spill by a Chinese company in Zambia has created a massive environmental crisis that threatens a river on which millions of Zambians rely. The incident occurred last month at a ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. More than a million people in China died from the effects of ambient air pollution in 2016, according to the World Health ...

"Launching over bodies of water ... pollution of another state's waters". "It is no different from dumping them on to the ...

Fu Junsheng collects plastic that washes up on China’s Miaodao islands and turns it into art that highlights the problem of marine pollution.

Water is the lifeblood of Bangladesh, a delta nation intricately woven with rivers and wetlands. Yet, this abundance of water ...

An acidic waste spill by a Chinese company in Zambia has created a massive environmental crisis that threatens a river on which millions of Zambians rely. The incident occurred last month at a ...