A committee of the Lok Sabha will soon visit Mumbai to study the problem of pollution faced by over a million residents in the eastern suburb of Chembur and its surronding areas following a petition
The national government on Tuesday appealed a recent court ruling ordering it to reduce emissions of so-called suspended particulate matter (SPM) to within environmentally acceptable limits in areas
all in Pabitora sanctuary : In an attempt to attract more tourists to the Pabitora wildlife sanctuary, famous for the rare one-horned rhinos in Morigaon district, the sanctuary authorities, in
Arsenic poisoning of ground water, which has wreaked havoc in eight districts of West Bengal, has struck Calcutta, where dangerous levels of the substance have been detected by
A WTO panel has been set up to examine whether India's automobile policy "breaks" WTO rules and "distorts" international trade as contended by both the US and the European
Inadequate, and sometimes illegal, government policies towards subsidies are causing over-fishing of the world's oceans, according to a new report launched by the European Policy Centre and the WWF
There is good news for rivers and streams, hedgerows and broadleaved woodlands but bad news for grasslands, road verges and bogs in the Countryside Survey 2000, produced for the UK Government.The
In the midst of the wrenching international debate over how to get expensive HIV drugs into Africa, pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Wellcome PLC has set off a new controversy by trying to block access to
Oman has 600 AIDS cases and the number of women contracting the deadly disease is small but rising, the official Oman News Agency reported. If quoted a health ministry official as saying 70 per cent
Pollution from electric power plants in the United States shorten the lives of more than 30,000 people every year, according to a new report released in Washington by environmental and health
European Union food safety standards estimated to save not even one life a year are likely to cost African countries some $700m in lost exports, according to a new study by World Bank
A London-based wildlife protection group said yesterday that it held Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee responsible for the country's rapidly declining tiger population. "We have evidence of
Scientists : Copper, chromium, ferric, nickel and lead contaminating the famous lake of Nainital in Uttaranchal can cause serious haelth hazards to local population and tourists, scientists have
The physician who performed the stem cell transplant of a baby boy conceived to save his elder siste's life has received hundreds of requests for a similar operation from around the world. "There has
The Sikkim High Court has ordered a fresh enquiry by the CBI into a case relating to felling of trees in North and West districts of the
Tamil Nadu has not recorded a single case of Polio this year, the Health Secretary, Mr. L.K. Tripathy, said
Poor nations said their fears of environmental turmoil were sidelined at U.N. climate talks yesterday as rich nations responsible for most of the world's pollution squabbled over how to stop global
The tribal land mining issue seems to be getting murkier, with the Andhra Pradesh government caught in the wrong foot over a major decision.In a blatant violation of the Supereme Court ruling, the
Severe drought, typhoons, poor infrastructure and economic problems mean that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK/North Korea) is facing its seventh consecutive year of food shortages,
Every second, one-and-a-half acres of forest land are being denuded globally resulting in loss of forest cover to the extent of 17 million hectares per annum. With the depletion of forest cover, more
