(File) A general view shows Madian Coal Gangue Power Generating Co.'s owned coal-fired power plant in Dangyang City, Hubei Province, central China. Photo: EPA
28 February 2023
China last year approved the largest expansion of coal-fired power plants since 2015,...
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21 November 2022
China's foreign ministry on Monday welcomed a deal struck at the landmark COP27 climate...
(File) A photograph taken with a drone shows areas of forest that have been cleared for oil palm plantations, in Bawa village, Subulusalam, Aceh, Indonesia. Photo: EPA
13 September 2022
Indonesia and Norway signed a deal Monday to reward deforestation reduction months after...
A picture taken with a drone of Jiangling river amid drought, a major tributary of the Yangtze River, in Chongqing, China, 30 August 2022. Photo: EPA
30 August 2022
The southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan downgraded emergency energy supply measures...
A general view shows the United Nations (UN) building in New York. Photo: AFP
04 April 2022
Negotiations to finalise a key UN report on how to stave off climate catastrophe wrapped...
China argues that industrialised nations, especially in the west, were able to get wealthy before carbon reduction controls came (Photo: AFP)
04 August 2021
China's climate envoy on Tuesday said the world's most populous nation would release its...
An aerial view shows the city engulfed in heavy smog in New Delhi, India, 17 March 2021. Photo: EPA
16 April 2021
India, one of the world's major carbon producers and fastest growing economies, insisted...
Morning commuters pass under the giant cooling towers of the Shengtou Power Plant in Shuozhou, Shanxi Province, China. Photo: EPA
22 November 2020
China must stop building new coal power plants and ramp up its wind and solar capacity if...
Rakhine ethnic women, who fled from conflict areas, collect water from a well at War Myat Hall village's temporary camp in Ponnagyun Township, northern Rakhine State, western Myanmar. Photo: EPA
23 March 2020
In Myanmar, limited groundwater resources must be used wisely to safeguard the...
Two thirds of the glaciers of the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region, known as the world's 'Third Pole', will disappear by 2100 if current global warming trends continue (AFP / AAMIR QURESHI)
13 January 2020
The year is 2100. The glaciers of the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region -- the world's "Third...