Pollution

The central government in Beijing appears serious about reducing pollution and greenhouse gases. Will local leaders listen?

China, with its latest flu outbreak and environmental situation, may well be on the cusp of coining a new term.

Chinese consumers want to buy automobiles that reflect their growing economic status. It may come at a cost.

This small country has a proud history of progressive reform. But some worry that the current government is turning back the clock.

Inertia within ASEAN and a refusal to enforce rules mean Southeast Asia is again grappling with “the haze.”

Transparency is key to cleaning up China’s factories. Undercover young environmentalists are trying to help.

Beijing’s air pollution has hit crisis levels, says one official. Will the govt change the way it measures air quality?

Smog recently forced the cancellation of hundreds of Beijing flights. Locals’ patience over pollution is wearing thin.

Beijing has opened its air pollution monitoring center to individual members of the public for the first time.

While parts of Asia are flooding, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore are once again grappling with haze pollution.

Too hazardous to touch in some places, China’s Yellow River has been choked by pollution and sediment. Joe Lamar reports on officials’ struggles to clean up the ‘Mother River’ and stem demand from the country’s ever thirstier provinces.

Twenty-five years on, campaigners say the world’s worst-ever industrial accident is still claiming victims. Sanjay Kumar visits Bhopal in India and speaks to the locals who say their government has failed them badly.