Cholera has killed 320 people and infected over 20,000 in Tanzania since the outbreak erupted in August last year, the health minister said on Monday.

An experimental drug that greatly increases levels of "good" cholesterol has no effect on heart health, a comprehensive clinical trial found, leaving researchers shocked and disappointed.

TWO people were killed after a waste water treatment device exploded Sunday night in a chemical plant in east China's Shandong Province, local government said Monday.

ILLEGAL waste discharge from livestock farms and suburban residences has been blamed for higher levels of phosphorus in Shanghai’s water, the local environment authority has revealed.

Elephant poaching in northern Tanzania's wildlife sanctuary, Tarangire National Park, has gone down for the past two years, a senior park official said on Sunday.

UNHEALTHY eating habits and a lack of exercise have been blamed for making obesity, thyroid diseases and liver fat the top three health problems afflicting Shanghai’s white-collar workers, accordin

Spring flooding known as the "peach blossom flood" has affected 58,000 people in central China, forcing 360 to be evacuated, local authorities said.

Almost every province in Cambodia is facing some level of drought, but only a few provinces were facing a severe shortage of water, local newspaper reported Wednesday, citing a meteorology official

Water from underground aquifers in the Gaza Strip suffers a deficit of over 100 million cubic meters (mcm) a year amid extremely high pollution levels, the Palestinian Water Authority said here Sun

The warming of Earth may not have directly caused all of the extreme weather events that have taken place in the past two decades, but climate change has in some way had an impact on them, a new re