30 killed as quake hits remote north Pakistan
Thirty people were killed and many injured when a moderate earthquake rocked northern Pakistan today, officials said. "The damage appears serious and we expect the death toll to mount," Jehnagir
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Australia hit by worst drought in 100 years
Bill Hagarty once beat a drought by sending his 5,000 sheep on a six-month walkabout, feeding them on the grassy outcroppings along public roads, or what ranchers here call "the long paddock." That
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US condom aid off as births in Manila boom
Disappointed by the government's inability to keep the country's population growth in check, the United States has decided to withdraw donations of subsidised contraceptives to the Philippines from
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37000 immunized against Polio
The Bhutan health department immunized 36,946 children under five years in the six southern dzongkhags and the high risk population in other 14 dzongkhags in its first round of sub-national
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Order to close down 48 more tanneries
Uttar Pradesh Government has ordered 48 more pollution creating tanneries. Action is being taken against 18 tanneries which do not have treatment plants. Few days back 7 tanneries were sealed due to
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The sinking of prestige
Vast tracts of Spain's spotless and beautiful shoreline have been ravaged by the wave of pollution from prestige, the oil tanker that sunk off the country's coast. The fact that the oil slick has
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Oil keeps tarring coast
Despite a massive clean up operation, Spain's north-west coast was still threatened by tarry slicks floating in from a sunken oil tanker that cracked its hull in a storm one week ago. Floating oil
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Relief rushed to Pak. quake hit
The army used helicopters to deliver tents and blankets to thousands of people after a deadly earthquake in a remote, near freezing port of northern Pakistan, officials said. At least 25 people were
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Volcano threat
Rocked by two earthquakes five minutes apart on Nov 24, frightened people raced out of their homes on Mount Etna's slopes, where a thick river of lava was rolling toward a refuge for hikers and
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High winds hamper clean up of Spain slicks
Spaniards battling to keep a wave of oil slicks from a sunken tanker at bay with little more than shovels faced a new enemy in high winds. Volunteer fishermen joined the painstaking clean up of the
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Fishermen race to harvest shellfish before slicks arrive
Spain braced itself for further environmental devastation as four large oil slicks formed in high seas where the tanker Prestige sank carrying 70000 tonnes of fuel. Military aircraft reported the oil
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Tougher policing needed for tankers
Pictures of oil-drenched Spanish beaches and bird life, with the likely hood of more pollution to come from the sunken Prestige tanker,should not totally obscure the fact that in an average year,
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Ocean 's cold may bar oil salvaging
As the tanker Prestige languishes on the sea bottom, international experts are brainstorming over the possibility of salvaging 17.5 million gallons of fuel oil before it escapes from the stricken
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How Singapore keeps its air clean, roads clear
In the Asian Network of Major Cities -21 conference, Singapore seemed to be the least involved. As all the other participants spoke of problems of housing, traffic congestion and air pollution,
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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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Trees being cut in Satvas range
The cutting of the Forest area coming under the submerging part due to the Indira Sagar Dam being constructed on Narmada River. In the first phase the forest area coming under 246-254 metre height
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Integrated scheme underway to rehabilitate freed Kamaiyas
Majority of the Non-Government Organisations in the district and the Land reform Office have decided to conduct a join programme in an integrated manner to rehabilitate the freed
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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