Oil prices rose above 75 U.S. dollars a barrel on Thursday as encouraging jobless and home sale data boosted market confidence in recovery. The Labor Department reported that the total number of people filling for first time jobless benefits fell 6,... [more]

With traditional heavy industries that rely on intensive consumption of resources, Jilin province in northeast China could help the move toward sustainability through trading in carbon emissions, according to a proposal from an academic in the provin... [more]

Crude oil prices fell nearly one month, standing under $75 per barrel Tuesday, while China still kept the retail price unchanged. Crude prices have dropped since the August 3 peak of $82.89 per barrel. In 2009, the National Development and ... [more]

Oil prices tumbled nearly four percent to settle below 72 U.S. dollars on Tuesday as investors eye another increase in crude stockpiles. The U.S. Energy Department is set to release the latest fuel inventory report on Wednesday, and the market expec... [more]

The weekly average price of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) declined to 70.88 U.S. dollars per barrel last week, the Vienna-based cartel said Monday. Despite the steady increase in oil prices since Wednesday, the average lev... [more]

If recent history is a guide, reaching the ambitious goal could be possible China wants to have up to 20 million clean and fuel-efficient new energy vehicles on the road by 2020, according to a recently published report in the local media. If rea... [more]

The L'Oreal Group, the largest cosmetics corporation in the world, doesn't just bring beauty to its Chinese customers; it puts a good face on society at large. The French company has officially issued its first country-specific report on sustainabl... [more]

Global plant productivity that once was on the rise with warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline because of regional drought, according to a new study of NASA satellite data. Plant productivity is a measure of the ... [more]

Oil prices continued to slide on Friday as a sell-off in stocks and a strengthening dollar weighed on the energy commodities. The U.S. Economic Cycle Research Institute said on Friday that its index for future economic growth fell to a 3-week low la... [more]

Huainan Mining Industry Co. Ltd. in east China's Anhui Province will build China's first colliery ecology protection laboratory to promote the sustainable development of the nation's coal mining industry, the company said. The laboratory's research ... [more]