GPCB serves notice on Gujarat gas
The Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) served a notice on Gujarat Gas Company Ltd (GGCL) following the detection of gas leakage from GGCL pipelines in Surat. A six member GPCB team had
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Alcohol increases breast cancer risk: Survey
A women's risk of breast cancer increases by 6 per cent for every extra alcoholic drink. She has a day, researchers say. But smoking which causes 15 other types of cancer, does not contribute to
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Are goats a link in polio transmission chain?
Two findings by scientists of the national institute of communicable diseases (NICD) have given a jolt to the national polio eradication programme. Health authorities are trying to confirm these
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Jamshedpur first ISO 14001 city in the country
The steel city added yet another feather in its cap when it became the first city in the country to be coveted with the environment management system certificate (ISO 14001). At a small ceremony ,
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Survey of hazardous factories ordered
Industry Minister Deep Chand Bandhu on Tuesday ordered an immediate survey of the hazardous units operating in the Capital. He said that labour commissioner will conduct this survey and ensure severe
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WTO decision on health, TRIPs pact stuck
The second major decision taken at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) fourth ministerial conference in Doha last year on public health and TRIPs agreement is stuck in the TRIPs council without an
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DFO dismisses users group of largest community forestry
The Kailali District Forest Office (Nepal) has decided to take over the management of the Chhatiwan Community Forestry citing misappropriation of hundreds of thousands of rupees by its users group.
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'Cambodia must not expel green watchdog'
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday joined a chorus of protest over the Cambodian government's plans to expel an environmental watchdog group, saying the expulsion could endanger crucial
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Dam on Vaitarna will spell death for 10000 trees
About 800 hectares of land in Beed district will be taken up for aforestaton by the Maharashtra government to compensate for the loss of 600 hectares of green cover in Thane district due to the
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NE states miss aforestation targets
In a poor reflection of endeavour of the North-eastern states, all the states in the region including Assam have missed targets of compensatory aforestation, even as questions have been raised about
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Cabinet sub-committee to shield marginal farmers' interests
The Karnataka State government has constituted a Cabinet sub-committee to forward a proposal to the Centre to protect the interests of marginal farmers, who are likely to lose land in the wake of the
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Forest encroachment: SC order under the scanner
The Supreme Court order, on eviction of those who encroached into forest land, came under the scanner in Karnataka State Legislative Council on Friday. Members belonging to all political parties
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Apathy eats away at lions in Sangli zoo
The king of the jungle continues to suffocate at Udyan at Sangli (Maharashtra) and the recent denial of permission to set up a lion safari at Sagreshwar buck santuary has put a question mark on the
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4 lions deaths in 3 days at Chhatbir
Two lions died at Chhatbir Zoo of what is being termed as worm infection. With this, the total number of lions to have died in the last three days at the zoo, the largest in northern India, goes up
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Bangla fish crisis
Bangladesh is threatened with a 'fish crisis' because of rampant use of banned nets along with increasing pollution, officials said. 'If this menace of pollution and indiscriminate fishing cannot be
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Hapless locals to control floods themselves
As the Nepal government has not made any effort in resolving the flood problem of hundreds of bighas of farmland by the Lakhandehi river, the local farmers there have planned to collect money on
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Efforts on to reach cyclone hit
The fate of more than 3,000 people hit by a cyclone last weekend remained unknown as Solomon Islands authorities delayed the sailing of a patrol boat to discover what happened, state Solomon Islands
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Taiwan to wage war on plastic utensils
Taiwan planned to begin waging a new war against garbage on Wednesday, partially banning disposable plastic bowls, bags and other utensils. "We must dump the habit of disposing of utensils after
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When man, animal and vegetation fought for space
It was a year when the clash between the needs of conservation and those of people, for tenure and livelihood, was most clearly evident. In the first half of 2002, two major issues - leopard attacks
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Amdavadis gasping for fresh air, thanks to their own vehicles!
Last week when oxygen kiloska were set up by the Ahmedabad police at several big traffic junction in the city, people jostled and elbowed their way to steal a breather. With pollution levels breaking