SHANGHAI -- A company that supplies potato products to McDonald's fast food restaurants in Beijing has been fined 3.9 million yuan (about $629,000) for polluting local water supplies, in what state

As if climate change and pollution weren’t bad enough, overfishing is making a mess of the Great Barrier Reef, the latest research from James Cook University in Queensland, Australia, published Tue

A new study funded by the Natural Environment Research Council has revealed that nearly a one tenth of plants and trees in the dense Amazon rain forest has been lost in the last five decades.

More than one-tenth of trees in the Amazon rainforest have been removed since the 1960s, contributing to a 1.5% rise in carbon dioxide levels since then.

A team of researchers at the Osmania University in Hyderabad has claimed to have discovered a new species of Gecko lizard.

The net greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand have soared 42 percent with gross emissions, making the country the fifth highest per capita among 40 developed nations.

Chinese researchers are pointing to south Asia, India in particular, and biomass burning in the region as contributing to the pollution of the icy Tibetan plateau and the melting of snow there.

SHANGHAI -- Local police in southern China have labeled Sunday’s 10,000-strong protest against the expansion of a local coal-fired power plant “illegal,” and say they are taking legal action agains

A dead Sumatran elephant, believed to be killed by poachers, was discovered on Monday in an Indonesian forest in Aceh province. Its head was mutilated and tusks were also missing.

Asia suffered the highest economic loss from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in 2014, according to a report.