Heavy rainfalls, withering droughts and other extreme weather patterns across the globe are denting miners' profits and crimping supply of iron ore, copper and other widely-used minerals as climate change roils yet another industry.

The world’s biggest miners have spent the past two weeks reporting lower profits, shrinking dividends and a worsening outlook as the year rolls on. Next up: Glencore Plc looks set to buck the trend.

Shanghai will set up eight carbon monitoring stations as part of national efforts to reduce emissions, according to the Shanghai Bureau of Ecology and Environment.

Manufacturing investment maintained a relatively high growth rate, climbing 10.4 percent year-on-year during the same period.

Of the 50 major goods monitored by the government, including seamless steel tubes, gasoline, coal, fertilizer.

China is set to start production of the world's largest coal-to-ethanol plant in September, which will be capable of producing over half a million metric tons of the key industrial ingredient each year, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

China has established a mineral resource group with a registered capital of 20 billion yuan ($2.97 billion) in Xiongan New Area.

Centrally administered group aims to facilitate trade, better guarantee supply