Nearly 17,000 families were displaced by a typhoon that hit several parts of southern Philippines.

The 324 pollution-prevention projects along the eastern route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Program in Shandong province have been completed and started operating at the end of January to e

Shanghai is to introduce 200 new-energy buses in a bid to cut emissions and reduce noise, Xinhua News Agency reported on Feb 20.

China's safety watchdog said Wednesday it will suspend or shut down operations in over 5,000 non-coal mines that do not meet safety standards this year.

Eight people have been confirmed injured in an earthquake near the border area of southwest China's Sichuan and Yunnan provinces on Tuesday, local authorities said.

China will proactively introduce a set of new taxation policies designed to preserve the environment, including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, according to a senior official with the Ministry o

China is planning to build a national earthquake monitoring and warning system in five years.

China's renewable energy power generation in 2012 rose 30.3 percent from a year earlier to 968 billion kilowatt-hours, according to the State Electricity Regulatory Commission.

Two people were injured when a 4.9-magnitude quake jolted the border area of Southwest China's Sichuan and Yunnan provinces at 10:46 am on Tuesday (Beijing Time), authorities said.

An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale jolted Philippine Islands region at 15:25:23 GMT on Saturday (23:25:23 Hong Kong Time), the US Geological Survey said.