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.

Pushed by surging global demand, China exported 36.46 million units of air conditioners in the first five months of 2025, up 12.9 percent year-on-year, while its exports of refrigerators totaled 33.64 ...

If current estimates are correct, then about 3.4 billion people will live in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) by 2050. And ...