Human rights experts, including a U.N. special rapporteur, are criticizing a U.N.

Argentine farmworker Fabian Tomasi was never trained to handle pesticides.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. says it has found that an unspecified amount of water contaminated with a highly concentrated radioactive substance escaped from another storage tank at the Fukushima No.

Toyota Motor Corp. and China’s prestigious Tsinghua University are conducting joint research on air pollution, officials involved in the project revealed Saturday.

A new federal report blames a combination of problems for a mysterious and dramatic disappearance of honeybees across the United States since 2006.

A flame-retardant chemical used in building materials and textile products such as curtains will likely be added to the list of toxic substances banned under an international treaty to protect huma

Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his Peruvian counterpart, Rafael Roncagliolo, agreed Tuesday that Tokyo will provide grant assistance worth ¥1.4 billion to Lima for environmental measures and to

A carnivorous plant found only in Aichi Prefecture has been confirmed as a new species, a researcher at Aichi University of Education announced Saturday.

A second underground storage pool is leaking radioactive water at the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 power plant, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday.

Eighty percent of sewage in India is untreated and flows directly into the nation’s rivers, polluting the main sources of drinking water, a study by an environmental watchdog showed.