China’s smog reducing efforts improved public health - but may have accelerated global warming by reducing sunlight-reflecting aerosols.

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. The decline in aerosol emissions — which can ...

"Can really support better early warnings." Scientists make game-changing breakthrough in battle against smog: 'We've gained a clearer picture' first appeared on The Cool Down.

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.

TOKYO — A local government in southwestern Japan on Tuesday advised residents to stay indoors or wear masks when they go outside in the nation's first official health warning over smog drifting ...