Chinese state media said an explosion in a coal mine killed at least 13 workers.

Lending support to demands from developing countries for an extension of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union Tuesday said it favored the continuation of the global pact that is aimed at reducing

Shanghai environmental-protection authorities said a battery factory operated by U.S.-based Johnson Controls Inc.

Japanese and South Korean companies have won the highest marks in Asia for “responsible” investing, which remains in its infancy in these countries, in a new survey by Eiris, an environmental resea

Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) said Monday that it won't restart its fire-hit oil refinery at Pulau Bukom, Singapore unless safety is ensured, even though the damage is limited to the vicinity of

A summer of record flooding along the Missouri River is leaving a band of destruction—broken roads, drowned farmland and condemned houses—through the nation's midsection.

Trace amounts of plutonium were found as far as 28 miles from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant, the first time that the dangerous element released from the accident was found outsi

Rescuers scrambled Sunday to deliver food and water to hundreds of villagers stuck on rooftops for days because of flooding in the northern Philippines, where back-to-back typhoons have left at lea

China urged Myanmar to protect the rights of its companies after the Southeast Asian nation's president ordered the suspension of construction of a contested hydroelectric dam backed by Beijing.

India and 25 other nations including the U.S.