China says it is prepared to discuss moderate goals to combat climate change at next week's summit of leaders from the world's eight leading industrialized nations.

The potential market for tiger products in China is enormous, but a vast majority of the Chinese public would rather have wild tigers than tiger-bone wine, according to new research published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE.

China’s Beichuan town has been sealed off to prevent any possible epidemics from happening. The town lost half of its 12,000 residents during the May 12 earthquake that killed 69,186 and left 18,457 people missing.

A new analysis of the setting for last month's devastating earthquake in China by a team of geoscientists at MIT shows that the quake resulted from faults with little seismic activity, and that similar events in that area occur only once in every 2,000 to 10,000 years, on average.

China has deployed surface-to-air missile batteries near its main Beijing Olympic venues as an apparent defence against airborne terror attacks on the Games.

It is unacceptable for China to block Internet content, a European Commissioner said on Friday, calling the Internet a free and open medium.

San Francisco's Exploratorium brings its fifth eclipse expedition team to remote Xinjiang Province in Northwestern China, very close to the Mongolian border, where the Exploratorium will webcast a total solar eclipse live to the world.

The United States and the European Union will call on China on Tuesday to have "results-orientated" talks on Tibet with the Dalai Lama's representatives, according to a draft joint declaration.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said the situation in the swollen Tangjiashan 'quake-lake' in south west China was at a "critical juncture" even as a fresh tremor complicated efforts to empty it.

Starting June 1, the Chinese government's country-wide plan to make shoppers pay small fees for plastic bags, and to forbid the production of ultra-thin bags will take effect. The move should save China 37 million barrels of oil a year. NGOs have been into the act earlier, pushing for relief from the ubiquitous plastic bag — Chinese use over 3 billion such bags every day.

Chinese authorities have evacuated some 200,000 people from an earthquake-devastated area facing risk of flood from a temblor-spawned giant lake under a plan that has also put a million more people on alert.

Thousands of toads appeared on the streets in one Chinese town days before it hit. Zoo animals started acting strangely hours before the worst earthquake in China’s history. Could these signs have been used to alert people something was about to happen?