Asia's flood-prone megacities should fund major drainage, water recycling and waste reduction projects to stem deluges and secure clean supply for their booming populations, experts said Sunday.

Alaska's remote Pavlof Volcano was shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume was thinning Saturday and no longer making it dangerous for airplanes to fly nearby.

Hong Kong saw its first electric taxis hit the streets on Saturday in a step towards reducing the city's high levels of roadside pollution.

The weather pattern is likely to be unstable over the next few days, with heavy rains expected across the country until next Tuesday, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said yesterday.

Australia on Thursday said it was pushing for a ban of any commercial use of a pioneering technique to reduce the impact of climate change by “fertilizing” the world's oceans with iron, warning of significant risks.

The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects.

More than half of common species of plants and a third of animal species are likely to see their living space halved by 2080 based on current trends of carbon emissions, a climate study said on Sunday.

Thirty black-faced spoonbills (黑面琵鷺), an endangered migratory bird, were holed up at Guandu Park (關渡自然公園) due to the inclement weather over the weekend, the Taipei City Animal Protection Office (APO) said yesterday.

Torrential rains that have pelted Taiwan since May 11 were expected to ease up this week as the effects of a weather front weaken, according to the Central Weather Bureau.

Worldwide levels of the greenhouse gas that plays the biggest role in global warming have reached their highest in almost 2 million years — an amount never before encountered by humans, U.S. scientists said Friday.