Japan says it will revise one of its two major research whaling programs after an international organization said bringing home and selling sei whale violates a convention protecting endangered specie...

Thailand extending closure of a beautiful bay made famous by the Leonardo DiCaprio movie "The Beach" until it recovers from years of environment damage caused by too many tourists...

A volcano has erupted on the same central Indonesian island as an earlier earthquake, but no evacuations were ordered...

A trickle of emergency aid is only now reaching parts of Indonesia's Sulawesi island that was struck by an earthquake and tsunami five days ago in which more than 1,400 people were killed...

The 12 village boys who were trapped with their soccer coach in a cave in northern Thailand for almost three weeks are ready to spread their wings, heading out to meet fellow youth players in Argentin...

A volcano has erupted in central Indonesia on the same island as earlier earthquake, but no evacuations immediately...

An early warning system that might have prevented some deaths in the tsunami that hit an Indonesian island on Friday is stalled in the testing phase...

The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant says much of the radioactive water stored there isn't clean enough and needs further treatment if it is to be released into the ocean...

Residents of Taiwan's capital Taipei are using newly installed machines called "iTrash booths" to recycle cans and bottles in exchange for credit on their transportation smart cards...

A senior Japanese whaling negotiator says Tokyo will continue to push for a resumption of commercial whaling despite the recent defeat of its proposal by the International Whaling Commission...