Low Sulphur pollution, fewer deaths : Study
Laws that cut air pollution start saving lives almost immediately, according to a Hong Kong study. University of London and University of Hong Kong specialists looked at eh impact on the death rate
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Ecologists take action to ban Asia's ubiquitous plastic bags
The world is awash with plastic bags and Asia, which uses them with wild abandon, may be drowning in them. The numbers are staggering. Taiwan's 22 million-people for example go through 20 billion
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Government moves to improve confidence in composted materials
The UK Government has launched a new composting standard intended to improve confidence in industrially-produced compost. Under the sponsorship of the Government's Waste and Resources Action
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Newcastle to be first ever city to go carbon neutral
Newcastle (UK) is pioneering the first ever programme of turning an entire city carbon neutral, offsetting greenhouse gas emissions from businesses and residents by introducing 'clean' technology and
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HIV infection rate slows in Singapore
The rate of HIV infection in Singapore appeared to be slowing for the first time in 13 years, according to official figures showing 189 new cases detected in the first 10 months of this year.
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Cong MP uses drought to get focus on Punjab
The Congress stormy pertel from Punjab, Jagmeet Singh Brar, used the drought to draw the attention of his party and prove the point that Punjab's agitation, vis a vis the Centre, had failed to work.
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Fines for illegal clinics hiked
The Delhi Legislative Assembly passed a bill amending the Delhi Nursing Homes Act, 1953. According to the bill, nursing home owners will have to renew the registration every three years and not every
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Consultancy market to reach 1.5 billion
Environmental consultancies are continuing to thrive despite a general downturn in the market, says a new report. The industry is growing annually by 10%, with a turnover of
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Government proposes waste trading scheme
The UK Government has put a proposal to force local authorities to reduce their biodegradable waste going to landfill before parliament. The bill includes a proposal for a waste trading scheme,
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Stricter sentencing for environment crime
Environment. The kit offers guidance to magistrates to deliver effective sentences for environmental offences. Launching the toolkit, Michael Meacher, Minister for the Environment said that the new
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Drought victims not getting the promised aid
Residents of drought-hit localities in Gujrat, Kharian and Serai Alamgir Tehsils (Pakistan) say they are being denied the aid they have been promised by the government because of district
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UK carbon emissions prices slide on oversupply
Prices in the UK carbon emissions trading market slumped this week after rising steadily since its start over seven months ago, as more participants gained credits to sell, brokers said. The market
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Tanker wreck off Spain adds to toxic seabed horror
A tanker wreck off Spain has added a new environmental time-bomb to seabed horrors ranging from sunken nuclear submarines to Hitler's mustard gas that are too difficult or dangerous to salvage.
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Canada's top Kyoto minister admits he has two SUVs
So what does Canada's natural resources minister drive when he's not pushing ratification of the Kyoto climate change protocol? Minister Herb Dhaliwal confessed that, well, he has two Volvos and two
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Argentine court orders Shell to clean up spill - mayor
An Argentine court ruled that Royal Dutch Shell Group must pay an estimated $10 million to clean up damage from a 1999 oil spill, the mayor of the city which filed the suit said. The court ruled on
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Hunger: NHRC lashes out at Orissa govt.
Expressing displeasure over the noncompliance of its directives related to starvation deaths in the KBK district, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday asked the Orissa government
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Lava tunnel on Pune road to stay untouched
A unique geological formation on Senapati Bapat Road which had been threatened by road widening is likely to remain unaffected with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), Maharashtra, and the Forest
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Asian cities come together, identify 17 areas of cooperation
The second session of the Asian Network of the Major Cities held in Delhi was about telling the world that Asia was as competent as any other continent in technology and need not look to the West
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Delhi chosen centre for studying climate change in continent
As many as 22 Asian countries have agreed that Delhi will have a centre which will study climate change and oppose Western propaganda blaming developing countries for these changes. The Indian
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Ajit: Drought in 2002 worst in recent times
Union agriculture minister Ajit Singh on Friday described this year's drought, as the worst in recent times and added that all drought-hit states would be given Central assistance. He, however,