PM 2.5

BEIJING--Communist Party leaders have come under attack at the National People’s Congress over worsening air pollution in Chinese cities as the capital is blanketed in a...

"Gorimuchu" is a Japanese idiom of Chinese origin. It translates literally as "five ri in a fog," and means "being totally at a loss." Ri was a traditional Chinese unit of...

BEIJING--Japanese and Chinese government representatives met here Feb. 22 to discuss China's air pollution for the first time since PM 2.5 pollutants reached critical levels...

BEIJING--Air pollution in Beijing is worse than anything Japan ever experienced, according to a medical attache at the Japanese Embassy here.

BEIJING--Fireworks to ring in the Lunar New Year could be heard in the Chinese capital from about 7 p.m. on Feb. 9, the eve of the Lunar New Year.

FUKUOKA--The Fukuoka municipal government, concerned about pollution from China, has become the first local government to establish its own criteria for determining whether...

BEIJING--Spending a day here when smog blankets the city and the air pollution is severe is equivalent to smoking 21 cigarettes, or about a pack a day, according to a survey by ...

Traces of China's air pollution have reached southwestern Japan, alarming residents and leading government officials to consider international cooperation to deal with the...

Along with cleaner air, researchers found one other major benefit after the Tokyo metropolitan government tightened standards on exhaust emissions from diesel vehicles in 2006: ...