Global impact of Asia's pollution
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The Asian "brown cloud" of pollution is affecting weather systems globally, according to research.
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Findings of UN panel on global warming put African and Asian regions among those most at risk.
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The legacy from environmental irresponsibility still hangs heavily over the city of Bhopal in India. Two decades after the world&#39;s worst industrial disaster, the site still needs to be cleaned up.
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Asia's fishery industry is awash with growth, opportunity and risk.
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As a bicycle kingdom gearing-up to become an automobile society, China, the world&#39;s third largest car manufacturing base, is facing a serious problem of automobile-related pollution and soaring levels of petrol consumption.
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Cape Verde Is. The disaster in Southeast Asia touches us all. Areas, which were already very poor has been affected by incomprehensible destruction.
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TOKYO - Four cities in China, India, and Azerbaijan were added to a list of the world's 10 most polluted places, the Blacksmith Institute said, citing a legacy of mining, Cold War-era pollution, and unregulated industrial production.
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By VERONIKA OLEKSYN  VIENNA, Austria - Tackling air pollution, contaminated drinking water and other environmental problems could save millions of lives annually around the world, the World Health Organization said in a report Wednesday.
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SINGAPORE, DECEMBER 28: The tsunami that has devastated parts of Asia and killed more than 28,400 has affected companies, economies and markets across the globe.
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The Asian tsunami disaster has been a uniquely continental catastrophe, striking hard from Thailand to the Maldives, and has stirred debate about how Asia should react as a region.
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By Kathy Marks  The Great Barrier Reef, already under threat from global warming, is also being affected by pollutants and pesticides from the land carried into the sea by flooded rivers, satellite images show.
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LINFEN, China _ Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.  It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night. The stranger is talk of an ultimatum.
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Global warming threatens one of the world's major religions, Hinduism, with its potential to affect one of its sacred resources, the Ganges River in India. Up to 70 percent of the Ganges' water during summer comes from run-off from Himalayan glaciers.
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China's Yellow River choking on pollution    ZHENGZHOU, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Pollution of the Yellow River, China's second longest river after the Yangtze, is getting worse, with over 66 percent of the water undrinkable, according to a newly released report on Yellow River Water Resources.
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Pollution from Asia is causing more intense storms that may be affecting worldwide temperatures and contributing to polar warming, a new study finds.
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By Sun Xiaohua  Pollution caused losses of 511.8 billion yuan (US$64 billion) in 2004, which was 3.05 per cent of the 16 trillion yuan (US$2 trillion) gross domestic product (GDP) that year.
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Air pollution is killing more than half a million people in Asian cities each year and shows no sign of improving as urban centers expand, studies by the Asian Development Bank show.