YANGON, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed and five others injured as tornado hit two villages in Phakant, Myanmar's northernmost Kachin state, local media reported Monday.

TWO people have been confirmed dead after a coal mine flooded yesterday in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, local authorities said today.

China will put in place a system of conservation standards to cap energy consumption for all major energy-intensive industries by 2020, according to a circular issued by the State Council, China's

SHANGHAI’S air quality is getting worse due to rising vehicle emissions, the high number of construction projects and various meteorological factors, a senior official said yesterday.

EMISSIONS from planes, trains and automobiles — as well as boats and trucks — are the biggest cause of air pollution in Shanghai, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection announced yesterday.

A 5.5-MAGNITUDE quake struck Jianhe county in southwest China's Guizhou province today, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.

An environmental organization has filed a lawsuit against a glass manufacturer in east China’s Shandong Province, which it claims is a major polluter, the Dezhou Intermediate People’s Court, said y

WELLINGTON, March 26 (Xinhua) -- The proportion of New Zealand' s electricity generated from renewable sources last year was the highest in almost two decades, according to a government figures out

BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Results from an early trial of an Ebola vaccine developed by Chinese researchers indicate it is safe, according to a paper published in The Lancet medical journal.

JINAN, March 25 (Xinhua) -- A commonwealth organization has demanded an industrial polluter in Shandong province receive hefty penalties when filing the country's first environmental lawsuit under