Nearly half the children surveyed in three towns near the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant received low-grade internal exposure to radiation during the early days of the accident there, the

Western Australian Environment Minister Bill Marmion said Friday that he has imposed 24 "tough" conditions on Chevron Corp.'s (CVX) proposed Wheatstone liquefied natural gas export project.

Car makers in South Korea are preparing to roll out electric vehicles in Asia's fourth-biggest economy as the government will have set up the necessary support infrastructure, including charging st

India plans to relax the rules governing its federal solar energy program in order to attract larger companies and investors, the renewable energy secretary said Wednesday.

More than 200,000 coastal residents in eastern China have evacuated and thousands of ships were called back to shore Saturday as Typhoon Muifa bore down on the country after battering the Philippin

Japan's minister in charge of nuclear safety said Friday that the country's planned nuclear safety agency may come under the jurisdiction of a different government department from its predecessors,

India's Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. said Friday it has signed a pact with Rio Tinto PLC to use and jointly market the U.K.-based group's specialized technology for making steel.

India's Supreme Court has allowed state-run NMDC Ltd. to operate two iron-ore mines in the southern state of Karnataka's Bellary district, a lawyer involved in the matter said Friday.

Within days of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Japanese food inspectors were spot-checking meat from the region's slaughtered cattle for radioactive contamination.

Indian wind turbine company Suzlon Energy Ltd. will pay a $490,000 penalty for pollution violations in the U.S.