Environment
Powerful quake hits Japan, Fukushima residents urged to flee tsunami
TOKYO A powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, generating a tsunami that hit the same northern Pacific coast devastated by a massive quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011.
- Trump's Interior Department shortlist vexes employees, green groups
- Beijing to ban polluting cars during smog alerts
- Tropical storm Otto forms in Caribbean, aims at Nicaragua, Costa Rica - NHC
- Obama administration bars new oil exploration in Arctic waters
- Investors press meat producers to cut water pollution
Recent Environment News
Tropical Storm Otto forms over Atlantic: NHC
Tropical depression 16 has strengthened into Tropical Storm Otto east of Nicaragua over the Atlantic, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Monday.
Swedish government to abolish solar energy tax
STOCKHOLM The Swedish government proposes to effectively abolish a newly introduced tax on solar energy after heavy criticism from environmental experts and the opposition, the country's finance minister said on Monday.
With support of China's Xi, Philippine leader to ban fishing in disputed lagoon
MANILA Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will issue an executive order declaring part of the disputed Scarborough Shoal a marine sanctuary off-limits to all fishermen, a move his office said was supported by Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
Companies told to halt production in northern Chinese city in anti-pollution drive
HONG KONG About half a dozen listed Chinese companies, mainly in the pharmaceutical sector, have temporarily halted production in China's northern city of Shijiazhuang as part of a Chinese government anti-pollution drive, the companies said on Monday.
