No other country could have done it ...

Those 4.9bn tonnes of coal represented more than half the world’s total consumption. They also represented a record level of Chinese consumption. If an economy is heavily electrified, economic growth ...

This makes possible a virtuous circle. The more other countries invest cost-effectively in fossil-fuel-free growth, the better it is for Chinese industry. The success of the world’s second biggest ...

It is the world’s renewable-energy superpower. Gabriel Crossley and Jeremy Page ask whether China could be the world’s climate leader, too ...

Scientists believe that the acceleration in global warming seen since the mid-2010s has been largely due to changes in the ...

Travel around Pakistan and you will see solar panels everywhere, from pukka bungalows to mosques, from farms to roadside ...

C ritics of China’s economy often complain that its investment is excessive and its official statistics flatter its performance. But recent monthly figures have flipped the script. Investment in ...

But she also voiced a concern shared by more and more of China’s people. “Everyone feels it. Summers are hotter, winters are ...

Location is everything. Kharkiv is just 40km (25 miles) from Russia, once a vital trading partner of Ukraine but now the country’s bitterest enemy. Lviv sits 70km from prosperous Poland, gateway to ...

Mr Zhadan is not alone. According to a study published in June by Match Group, Tinder’s owner, and the Kinsey Institute, a research centre at Indiana University, a quarter of American singles now use ...

Nearly five years on, Ms Abrams’s glow has faded and the political machine she created is closing. The New Georgia Project, a voter-mobilisation group she founded in 2013, was the basis of her success ...

But Changxing Island shows it is more realistic to expect another path—namely, that other countries will find it ever harder ...