TOKYO. Japan has detected a strain of bird flu in a flock of wild swans after stepping up checks
Asia's rainforests are being rapidly destroyed, a trend accelerated by surging timber demand in booming China and India, and
BEIJING - China called on the international community Thursday to increase the flow of technology to developing countries to
Russia is experiencing its worst forest fires in thirty years. Two people have been killed and hundreds of families
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom made an impassioned plea Tuesday for a cut in global greenhouse
More than 10 million people in parts of Thailand's rice bowl region have been hit by drought, the government
PARIS (AFP) - A world without fresh water would be a world bereft of humans, and yet one in
A pollution-linked algae bloom has reappeared in China's third-largest lake, prompting renewed fears for the drinking water supplies of
China is now the world's biggest carbon emitter ahead of the US, a soon-to-be-published report says. Report courtesy of
BEIJING, April 13 (Reuters) - A drought in China's northeast Liaoning province has left nearly 700,000 people without drinking