PENNSYLVANIA has played a big role in the history of American energy. Coal has been mined there since the 1760s (Pennsylvania is sometimes called “the coal state”).

Disaster management ministers from Japan, China and South Korea agreed Wednesday to strengthen cooperation on promoting a U.N. action plan adopted in March to respond to emergencies.

Life expectancy in China is rising and child mortality has fallen, according to studies of different regions in the country.

A new study published in Nature by scientists at Stanford and UC Berkeley has made waves for its finding that thus far we have dramatically underestimated the damage human-caused climate change wil

ASAHIKAWA, HOKKAIDO – The inventor of a new kind of toilet based on sawdust calls it a hygienic solution for whenever there is no water or drainage, such as after natural disasters.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced completion Monday of a 780-meter coastal wall along the heavily damaged reactor buildings of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

The government plans to extend a tax break for purchases of environmentally safer vehicles by a year through fiscal 2016, but apply it to a narrower scope of cars, according to sources close to the

THE stench of rot and rat excrement fills the living room of Yoshiei Igari, one of thousands of residents who fled the town of Naraha on March 12th 2011 after an earthquake and tsunami had sent the