One of China's major cities has reached an environmental milestone: an almost all electric-powered taxi fleet...

The boom in U.S. fossil-fuel production has been matched by a rush on the other side of the Pacific to build the tankers needed to help supply the seemingly unquenchable thirst for energy among Asia's...

Japan says it protested to Beijing that a Chinese trawler suspected of poaching off Japan's southern coast sailed away with Japanese inspectors on board; China disputed the boat had crossed the border...

Japan is leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial hunts but it will no longer hunt the animals in the Antarctic...

Japan's central government has started main reclamation work at a disputed U.S. military base relocation site on the southern island of Okinawa despite fierce local opposition...

A dead sperm whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia had a large lump of plastic waste in its stomach including 115 drinking cups, 25 bags and two flip-flops...

China says it is suspending rule changes allowing the trading in tiger and rhinoceros parts, following an outcry from environmental groups...

On the edge of the Third Pole, a retreating glacier draws tourists and worries over climate change...

Philippine police say gunmen have killed nine members of a farmers' group who occupied a part of a privately owned sugarcane plantation...

Chinese emergency services say about 6,000 people have been evacuated after a landslide in Tibet blocked the flow of one of the region's key rivers, creating a lake that could endanger downstream area...