Japan may become a bright spot for the solar industry due to regulatory changes and its nuclear power crisis, which equipment makers from home and abroad hope will help offset a profit outlook clou

The death toll from an explosion at a chemical plant in northern China last week has risen to 25, with four missing and 46 others injured, state media reported.

Tremors from what appeared to be a sizeable earthquake struck the Indian capital Monday, with the aftershocks lasting several seconds.

Ecuadorian plaintiffs in an environmental lawsuit against Chevron Corp.

Japanese authorities have introduced stress tests for all nuclear reactors in the country in an effort to ease public worries over nuclear-power safety, but the tests are being called inadequate by

Shanghai authorities for the first time directly linked lead pollution that they said had sickened local children to emissions from a battery plant owned by Johnson Controls Inc., putting a further

Republicans on the campaign trail have long bashed President Barack Obama's environmental regulations.

Smoke from burning forests and grasslands kills on average 339,000 people a year world-wide, an international research team said Sunday in the first systematic global health study of air pollution

Federal officials reached the first civil settlement related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill when a division of Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co.

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