CHINA'S court system concluded 19,000 criminal cases involving environmental pollution and undermining resources in 2015, up 18.8 percent year on year, a work report of the Supreme People's Court (

Mining operations at Papua New Guinea's Ok Tedi copper mine remain suspended on Monday following the tragic death of a worker from a rock fall, just two weeks after operations recommenced.

California's senate on Thursday approved a raft of anti-smoking legislation raising the minimum age for buying cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21 and regulating e-cigarettes.

WELLINGTON, March 11 (Xinhua) -- The world is on track for massive sea level rises resulting from the melting of an Antarctic ice sheet if carbon dioxide emissions continue as predicted, a leading

A new reform is in the works to ensure independent and effective law enforcement by local watchdogs in China, Minister of Environmental Protection Chen Jining said on Friday.

The Asia-Pacific region "continues to be the most disaster prone part of the world in 2015" and needs a risk-sensitive development approach, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said here Thursday.

Agriculture -- and not fossil fuels -- is the major cause of the rise in methane levels in the atmosphere over the last decade, according to a New Zealand-led study on climate change out Friday.

Singapore is still the world's most expensive place to live, while China's Hong Kong has moved up seven places in the ranking into joint second place with Zurich, according to the Economist Intelli

HONG KONG, March 4(Xinhua) -- An 5.3-magnitude earthquake jolted 217km SE of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea at 2016-03-03 21:47:49 GMT on Thu (2016-03-04 05:47:49 Beijing Time), the U.S.

The Czech Republic has identified its third case of Zika virus in a 38-year-old female tourist who recently returned from the Dominican Republic, local media reported on Thursday.