China’s success in cleaning up air pollution may have accelerated global warming: Study

Jul 14, 2025 - 14:01
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China’s success in cleaning up air pollution may have accelerated global warming: Study
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. The decline in aerosol emissions — which can cool the planet by absorbing sunlight —  have added about 0.05 degrees Celsius in warming per decade since 2010, according…