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.

Air pollution causes cooling by reflecting sunlight or by changing the properties of clouds so they reflect more sunlight.

The findings were published Monday, July 14, in Communications Earth & Environment. Stricter air quality regulations with unintended consequences China was able to reduce the emission rates of toxic ...

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The speeding up of global warming has been largely driven by cuts to air pollution in China and wider East Asia, scientists ...

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

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As China slashed sulfur dioxide emissions by roughly 75 percent, a new study finds Earth began warming much, much faster.