A new study shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. Researchers used A.I. to model waste ...

For years, China’s local governments have been leading a strict campaign to stamp out one of China’s biggest sources of air pollution: the burning of leftover crop stalks after harvest. Now they are ...

China’s new Ecological and Environmental Code, approved on 12 March, includes a requirement for scientific and accurate “organisation and management of straw burning.” Experts say this marks a shift ...