When China first announced its new “K visa” for foreign professionals in science and technology back in August, the policy barely registered in the public eye. That changed last week when an Indian ...

Inner Mongolian herder Dorj looked bitterly at the vast grasslands where his flock once grazed freely, before the practice was banned as part of a massive Chinese state greening project.

Separately on Monday, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced the opening of 13.1 million acres of federal land for coal leasing, triple the benchmarks set by the so-called One Big Beautiful ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Droughts have withered crops in Peru, fires have scorched the Amazon and hydroelectric dams in Ecuador have struggled to keep the lights on as rivers dry up. Scientists say the ...

China’s 2025 national commemorations—from the September 3 Victory Day ceremony to a forward-leaning diplomatic calendar—underscore a simple truth: Beijing is pairing domestic modernization with a ...

The burning of coal is the largest contributor to climate change worldwide. But the Trump administration sees United States coal as crucial.

China’s plan to reduce greenhouse gases will largely determine the world’s emissions trajectory, researchers say ...

New ways to measure thawing permafrost could help us understand its potential impacts on infrastructure, military outposts, and communities.

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China traded tit-for-tat tariffs with the United States, but it otherwise remained content to sit back and accrue benefits from Trump’s alienation of U.S. allies and withdrawal from international ...

The deal would allow the government to take a small equity stake in a Canadian company developing one of the world's largest lithium mines, an official said.