Arsenic contamination of water
Arsenic has been found in 44 of Bangladesh's 64 districts according to reliable sources in the Public Health and Engineering Department (DPHE). More than 25,000 tests that were done all over the
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Clean environment must be a basic right
In this year of human rights, the right to clean environment should be one of the basic rights available to mankind, director of the United Nations Information Centre Feodor Starcevic said here on
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Bio-technology industry in need of sops
The president of the All India Biotech Association, Mr. Vivek Singhal, today sought concessions and other incentives for the biotechnology industry on the lines of those being given to the
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Fire at Jamnagar Tata Plant, 8 hurt
A massive fire broke out at the captive power plant of Tata Chemicals Ltd, Mithapur, in Jamnagar on Friday causing burn injuries to at least eight persons, three of whom are reported to be
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PCB seals Kedia liquor factory
The Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB) on Friday sealed the Kedia Liquor Ltd's plant at Ekalduna village in Dhar district for violating environmental
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$374,000 for 'wash' cancer
An Australian woman who contracted cancer after washing her husband's asbestos-contaminated clothing was yesterday awarded more than $374,000 in a landmark compensation payment. It was the first
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Judge halts md. anti - smoking ban
A judge Friday temporarily halted a suburban Washington community's anti-smoking ordinance that was considered one of the toughest in the nation. The preliminary injunction issued Friday by Circuit
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U.S. agency wins ruling on clean air
The US Supreme Court has unanimously upheld in the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to set new and tougher clean air standards without first considering the potential economic impact on
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Isahaya floodgate may reopen in late March
Japan's Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshio Yatsu on Friday expressed readiness to open the floodgate of a dike in Isahaya Bay, Nagasaki Prefecture, possibly at the end of March, to
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Two Taiwan ministers offer to quit over oil spill
Two Taiwan cabinet ministers offered to resign yesterday over the island's worst oil spill in decades which has turned into a new political headache for embattled Premier Chang Chun-hsiung. The
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Two days after earthquake, the effects linger and the costs grow
Many streets and roads in western Washington looked almost as good as new today, two days after enduring the worst earthquake to hit the Pacific Northwest in half a century. But the State Capitol
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Geologists puzzle over what failed to shake
Though they cautioned that they were working with less than two days' data from Wednesday's earthquake in Pacific Northwest, scientists are already saying that they are finding evidence of much less
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Commerical fishing to end in US park
The US Department of the Interior Appropriations Act, has provided for the phase-out of commercial fishing inside Glacier Bay Park in Alaska to protect the park's marine resources.
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IBM makes world's fastest computer
IBM has developed the world's fastest computer, capable of performing 3.9 trillion operations a second and simulating a nuclear bomb test, government officials said. The development was to be
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Government project to remove Bull Frogs ends in failure
The South Korean Environment Ministry's project to remove bull frogs, a species that threatens the country's ecological balance, has turned out to be a failure in terms of both cost and
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New types of rice
The Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute, is credited with developing nearly all the new rice varieties that doubled production. About 60% of the world's ricelands are planted
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Drugs groups set to boost patient helplines
Several pharmaceutical companies operating in the UK are considering increasing their use of patient helplines in an effort to improve brand loyalty and raise awareness of treatment options for
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No scientific justification to suspend Hepatitis B immunization
On 1 October 1998, the French Ministry of Health announced a decision to suspend routine HB immunization of adolscents in French schools, while continuing the immunization of infants and high risk
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Guarded welcome for open-cast mining planning controls
UK government plans to tighten planning controls on open cast coal extraction received a guarded welcome from environmentalists and the mining industry. Both parties said the outcome would depend
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SC upholds CRZ guidelines to protect coastline
The Supreme Court has once again upheld the Coastal Regulation Zone(CRZ) guidelines in order to protect the coastline of India - this time with respect to the tiny beach of Palolem in the