Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

Five years ago, the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic of the novel coronavirus, setting off a series of ...

China’s top foreign affairs official, Wang Yi, cast his country as a force for peace and order even as Beijing provokes its ...

One of Trump’s biggest complaints was that the agency was too slow to alert the world of an emerging health threat in China ...

Chad, in central Africa, is the world’s most polluted country, while California has the worst air pollution in North America, ...

Six out the world’s 10 most polluted cities are in India, while California has the worst air pollution in North America, a ...

Even as its economy slows, China aims to fill the void on the world stage as President Donald Trump upends America’s trade alliances and erodes U.S. prestige.

Just hours after taking office on Jan 20, 2025, the U.S. president announced his intention to withdraw from the World Health Organization and the Paris ... creating a vacuum for China to step into and ...

Lessons learned from COVID-19 prepared the U.S. for the next viral scourge, but much of that progress is at risk of being ...

IQAir latest study shows 19 of 20 cities with worst air pollution are in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, and Kazakhstan ...

The U.S. government will stop sharing air quality data gathered from its embassies and consulates, worrying local scientists ...