Average sea levels are rising faster in China's coastal region than most other places in the world, affecting the coastal environment in various ways, the national marine authority said.

SEOUL - The first case of the Zika virus was detected in South Korea, Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday citing the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

LHASA -- The central government poured 22.3 billion yuan (about $3.44 billion) into water conservancy infrastructure of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region in the past five years, according t

BEIJING -- China's National Health and Family Planning Commission on Sunday confirmed the nation's first imported yellow fever case in Beijing.

SYDNEY - Australia risks not meeting its commitments agreed to under the Paris Climate Change agreement while also being ill-prepared to offset the local impact due to job cuts at the nation's chie

BEIJING - Beijing is to raise the thresholds for issuing its highest air pollution warnings, the state news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday, two months after smog triggered the city's first ever "

BEIJING - China's newly installed wind power capacity reached a record high in 2015 amid increasing efforts from the government to boost clean energy.

The national environmental authority found severely excessive pollution emissions during inspections of 648 companies in 59 cities in December, and it promised tougher punishment this year under a

The Fourth Session of The 12th Hubei People's Congress voted to pass "Soil Pollution Prevention and Control Regulation of Hubei Province", China's first local laws and regulations for the preventio

Rescuers have successfully lifted out 4 miners who had been trapped for 36 days after a gypsum mine collapsed in Pingyi County, east China's Shandong Province in late December.