
New Zealand outlines plans to tax livestock burps, farts
New Zealand on Tuesday unveiled plans to tax the greenhouse gas emissions from farm animals, in a controversial proposal designed to tackle climate change.
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New Zealand on Tuesday unveiled plans to tax the greenhouse gas emissions from farm animals, in a controversial proposal designed to tackle climate change.
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The World Trade Organization on Wednesday dramatically lowered its global trade forecast for 2023, as Russia's war in Ukraine and other shocks take their toll…
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The Energy Regulatory Commission, in a 3-2 vote, denied the petition of SMC Global Power Holdings Corp. for a P4.80 increase in the contracted prices of the…
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Reforms to the way that societies collect and treat their waste could slash global emissions of planet-heating methane, a new report said Monday, noting that…
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Indonesia's government called on the country's police Monday to identify and punish whoever was responsible for a stadium stampede that left 125 people dead,…
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Russia's Gazprom has suspended gas deliveries to Italy's Eni, blaming a transport problem in Austria, the Italian energy giant said on Saturday.
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A 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia's Sumatra island early Saturday, according to the US Geological Survey, killing at least one person and injuring…
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Dozens of workers fell unconscious and were hospitalized on Thursday after a chemical leak at an Indian meat processing plant, police said, the second such…
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A country of fertile, densely populated deltas, low-lying Bangladesh is among the most vulnerable nations in the world to climate change.
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The Philippines and Malaysia forged stronger ties on the sidelines of the 77th United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday, 23 September.
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A powerful earthquake struck western Mexico on Monday, leaving at least one person dead and sparking panic hundreds of kilometers away in Mexico City on the…
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A fire engulfed a skyscraper Friday in the central Chinese city of Changsha, with authorities saying that no casualties had yet been found.
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Taipei accused China on Wednesday of pressuring organizers of a Malaysian trade event into barring a Taiwanese beauty queen waving the island's flag on stage.
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Survivors of a karaoke bar blaze in Vietnam spoke Thursday of their terror as they tried to escape an inferno which killed over 30 people and has raised…
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The death toll from a fire that tore through a karaoke bar in southern Vietnam has risen to 23, an official said Wednesday.
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A fire broke out in a building inside the ABS-CBN compound in Quezon City Tuesday morning.
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Rosmah Mansor, the wife of Malaysia's ex-premier Najib Razak, was found guilty of graft Thursday, just over a week after her husband began serving a 12-year…
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The United States government, through the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, recently partnered with the Bureau of Fire Protection and the Southern Philippines…
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