Coastal Restoration

Russian investigators said Saturday they were looking into “a possible ecological catastrophe” in the eastern Kamchatka region.

A power plant manager is arrested after 20,000 tonnes of oil polluted an Arctic river.

People are bringing in luggage, laundry hampers, pots, and buckets to carry groceries after a new plastic bag ban in Thailand.

Since Jan. 1, China has banned imports of 24 kinds of waste, including materials used in plastic bottles, in a campaign against “foreign garbage.”

Officials were concerned the boxes of shark jaws from southeast Asia might include illegal specimens from endangered species.

A U.S. military flight over the South China Sea brings harsh Chinese challenges in officially international space. Officers say a new era of risk is here.

Rescue operations for the 12 soccer players and their coach ended July 10, when the last five of the group were taken from the murky Thai cave complex after two weeks.

Chiang Rai Gov. Narongsak Osatanakorn said late Monday that the 13 were being rescued. "We found them safe," he said. "But the operation isn't over."

India's Supreme Court has blasted the government agency in charge of the famed white mausoleum, which is withering from a series of environmental calamities.

In 2015, more than 60 percent of the world's saiga antelope died in just three weeks. Now, researchers have linked the deaths to climate change.

A Chinese salvage team recovered two bodies on Saturday from a stricken Iranian oil tanker, that was still blazing a week…

The Hague court's finding that China caused 'devastating' harm to marine ecosystems could shift the political dynamics, some analysts say.

Myanmar’s conservation ministry is considering captive breeding of as many as 175 threatened species, including tigers, Irrawaddy dolphins and rare birds that exist only in the wild.

Red-hot lava is gushing out of a Philippine volcano after a sudden eruption of ash and steam that forced villagers to flee and shut down Manila’s airport, offices and schools

Dozens of laborers and factory operators sit hand-cuffed in rows on the pavement at an industrial park in Malaysia.

An ordinary bird took out one of America’s most expensive warplanes.

Shoyna, a fishing village in the frigid far north, is slowly vanishing under dunes that engulf entire houses. For children, home is now a giant sandbox. Adults have to “say goodbye to my high heels.”

A strong earthquake struck Indonesia's popular tourist island of Lombok, triggering a tsunami warning, one week after another quake in the same area killed more than a dozen people.

It's still terrifying.

The Sanchi oil tanker is estimated to have been carrying 8,450 barrels of bunker fuel at the time of its collision.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Vietnam's Mekong Delta were evacuated as the region braced for the arrival of Typhoon Tembin after the storm left more than 160 people dead in the Philippines.