Efficient and environmentally friendly disposal of urban garbage has become a pressing challenge for the country as it accelerates urbanization.
More than 300 households in Hangzhou have participated in an intelligent recycling program by classifying their waste.
Land reclamation is helping reverse the environmental costs exacted by years of mining in China's "mercury capital", located in Guizhou.
A mining enterprise has been identified as the source of a river pollution in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, local authorities said on Monday.
China's food and drug watchdog on Friday announced that 13 types of health food will be banned, as they have been found to contain undesirable chemicals.
The pollution movement has not been given enough attention, as the focus has been on the economic development of the underdeveloped regions.
The growing amount of wasted food in China, soon to be the largest consumer market in the world, has largely undercut the country's green transformation.
Due to the soaring demand for cleaner air, air purifiers will become the new growth driver for the country's sluggish home appliance industry.
Beijing's living environment, especially air quality, is now the top challenge in retaining foreign workers, as opposed to salary or career development.
Beijing plans to have 50,000 electric vehicles on the roads by 2015, of which 30,000 will be private cars.
Many variables will factor into when China's greenhouse gas emissions will peak, and the issue requires more in-depth analysis, said Zhou Dadi.
Beijing has vowed to eliminate most coal-fired boilers in the city center by the end of 2015 to reduce pollution from fine particulate matter.
Processed gutter oil is expected to be used as bus fuel within two years in Shanghai, as part of efforts to advance a circular economy.
The imminent expiry of China's home appliance subsidy policy is unlikely to have a major impact on the nation's "white goods" market.
Environmental protection was an entire chapter for the first time in the central government's white paper on human rights progress.
The traditional coal-producing city of Erdos, in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, is determined to become a base of clean-energy output by 2017.
Heavy smog has returned to the skies of Beijing after a two-month break, with authorities predicting the pollution will linger due to unfavorable conditions.
While other people armor up in masks to battle the smog, Matt Hope has a better solution. He shows off his'anti-pollution' bike to our reporter Xu Lin.
Given that the capital has been shrouded in heavy smog most of the winter, its rivers are polluted and garbage treatment capacity is inadequate.
Despite unprecedented efforts by the government to promote green vehicles, growth in this market has failed to meet expectations.