Efforts to clean up air pollution in China and across East Asia may have inadvertently contributed to a spike in global warming, a new study has found.

There's often a decline in air pollution in parts of China around this time thanks to Lunar New Year. But NASA said this year there was more of a decrease than usual.

In total, China’s air pollution crackdown is responsible for 80 per cent of the increased rate in global warming seen since 2010, the team concludes, around an extra 0.05°C (0.09°F) per decade.

Fan Fan Hou, MD, PhD and Xin Xu, MD, PhD et al. Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution and Increased Risk of Membranous Nephropathy in China. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology , June 2016 ...

The cleanup of air pollution in East Asia has accelerated global warming, a new study published today (Monday, 14 July) in ...

That is a big change from 2011, when the state media referred to China's choking air pollution with the euphemism "heavy fog." Now, China says it will spend $817 billion on a plan to drastically ...

The annual Air Quality Life Index report, produced by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, praised China’s “staggering success in combating pollution.”. Pollution levels ...

China's efforts targeting air-pollution control have driven a total investment of about 4 trillion yuan (about $562.09 billion) across the country, Liu said, adding that the efforts have also ...

China’s push to move heavy industry into its western regions is hurting air quality there even as it improves for the nation as a whole, according to a new report from the Centre for Research on ...