Authorities in China are fighting to prevent the spread of a mosquito-borne viral disease after thousands of cases were reported in a few weeks.The country has seen nearly 8,000 cases of chikungunya ...

In a citywide campaign to curb a mosquito-borne virus, residents of Foshan face inspections and warnings for failure to ...

The unconventional methods — giant mosquitoes — underscores the desperation of officials confronting an unprecedented ...

A virus transmitted by the bites of infected mosquitoes, chikungunya is rarely fatal, but it does cause fever and severe joint pain. It has infected about 8,000 people in China in four weeks, mostly ...

The slaughter of Africa’s elephants and the illegal trade in ivory in China are “out of control” and could push wild elephants extinction within a generation, conservationists said Tuesday ...

XISHUANGBANNA, China -- The love between man and elephant does not come easily. Just ask villagers in this tropical swath of southwestern China. Pachyderms gobble up crops, rampage through ...

The four-year-old bull elephant, referred to alternately as "Big Brother" or "Xiguang," went through a lengthy rehab course after traders captured him in southwest China in 2005 and used spiked ...