A Japanese court has ruled that Okinawa's governor exceeded his legal authority by revoking a permit to reclaim land for the relocation of a U.S. military base, allowing the central government to proc...

The European Union has admitted Indonesia to a special licensing system it hopes will prevent the illegally felled tropical timber that makes up a substantial part of the country's wood production fro...

China's electric vehicle industry, a flagship for Beijing's technology ambitions, has been rocked by scandal after five companies were caught collecting millions of dollars in subsidies for buses they...

A leading international group has taken the giant panda off its endangered list thanks to decades of conservation efforts, but China's government discounted the move, saying it did not view the status...

Indonesia's minister of environment and forestry has condemned attempts by a palm oil company to stop an investigation into forest fires by taking ministry investigators hostage...

President Barack Obama and China's President Xi Jinping on Saturday sealed their nations' participation in last year's Paris climate change agreement...

China announced on Saturday that it would formally enter the emissions-cutting agreement reached last year in Paris, giving a big boost to efforts to bring the accord into force by the end of this yea...

Tokyo's first female governor says she will use her platform to host a cost-efficient and environmentally friendly 2020 Olympics and push a women's rights agenda that she hopes will be a model for Jap...

Investigators in eastern China say they have not found high levels of pollution around a school where an explosive state television report in April said hundreds of kids had fallen sick with illnesses...

Six Indonesian provinces have declared states of emergency as forest fires blanket a swath of Southeast Asia in a smoky haze...