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...

After several failed efforts to stop wild elephants from rampaging through their produce, farmers in Thailand have turned to Plan Bee...

Vietnam says it's now safe to swim at most beaches in four central provinces where massive fish deaths occurred more than four months ago because of toxic chemicals released by a Taiwanese steel compa...

Two top provincial officials in northern Vietnam have been fatally shot by a fellow official in a rare such incident in a communist country where guns are strictly controlled...

A survey shows that consumers think smartphone makers are releasing too many new models each year...

A wildlife trade monitoring group has called on Indonesia to take strong action against traders of endangered birds who are driving several species toward extinction...