State moves out of WB focus
The World Bank has admitted that it "had learned a lot in dealing with industrial pollution in Gujarat" and will, therefore, be moving away from investing in pollution control measures towards
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India will be polio-free by 2005
WHO review : India will be able to eradicate polio completely by the year 2005, a joint review conducted by the government and the World Health Organisation has concluded. The team which conducted
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CII moots voluntary disclosure initiative
In a move to make Indian corporates more environmentally friendly compatible during the WTO regime, the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) is preparing a novel voluntary disclosure initiative.
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Brazil fined over oil spill
Environmental authorities slapped a $3.6 million fine on Brazil's state-run oil company Monday, local media reported, after a tanker spilled thousands of gallons of crude oil in the ocean near a
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Vultures disease
A disease among India's critically endangered vultures is spreading to neigbouring Nepal and Pakistan, prompting the Pan-Asian Ornithological Congress to give it top billing. "This year's meeting
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Fishermen protest disney site
Environmentalists and fishermen who live near the Hong Kong Disneyland construction site are urging the government to halt dredging they believe is killing fish."A large number of fish have been
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Treating anaemia or transmitting AIDS?
Even in the second decade of the AIDS prevention programme in the country, unnecessary blood transfusions account for a large number of transmissions. So far doctors belived that only children
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Germany hit by BSE resignations
Germany's centre-left government was rocked by the resignations of two cabinet ministers in response to growing national alarm over BSE, or mad-cow
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South Africa drops Aids plan
South Africa dropped plans to make Aids a notifiable disease, fearing sufferers could be attacked.
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Where residents have difficulty breathing
The children cough-up blackish deposits. The elders have permanently sealed their windows to keep out the polluted air. And over 75 per cent of the students of a nearby school perpetually suffer from
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The final battle
Dubbed its most successful public health campaign, India's salt iodisation programme has protected millions of new borns across the country from neonatal hypothyroidism and its outcomes, ranging from
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Taihu's water quality improves
Effective environmental protection laws and other measures have led to the improvement of water quality in Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province of China.The news was announced by officials from the
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Ammonia leakage poses threat to mangrove plants
Leakage of ammonia gas on 1 November from the Oswal Fertilizer Factory at Paradip has affected the mangrove vegetation along the Mahanadi coast warned the Wildlife Society of Orissa (WSO). Even the
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District recognized for green improvement
Wuxi New District has become the fourth district in China to receive the prestigious International Standardization Organization (ISO)14000 rating, given to areas which successfully balance economic
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Rubber dams to help increase rice output
Production of rice could be increased significantly by using rubber dams as the relatively new technology is more viable compared to other options, said a recent study of BUET, reports BSS. "In terms
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1,500 cr. coastal protection scheme planned
A Rs. 1,500-crore coastal protection programme to be implemented all over the country has been mooted, Mr. Arjun Charan Sethi, Union Water Resources Minister, said today.Under this project, the
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Farmers plan bullock-cart rally against farm impots
The restructured National Farmers' Cordination Committee has decided to take out a bullock cart rally from Kashmir to Kanyakumari starting from January second week as a protest agaist the import of
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Foreign experts study human-wildlife conflict in Wayanad
An international team of wildlife and forest officials held discussions with the officials of the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary here to analyse the methods adopted to address the increasing
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Growing cotton via tissue culture
Scientists here have identified for the first time a strain of a popular south Indian cotton variety that can be multiplied through tissue
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Over 110 states adopt new plan of action against illegal fishing
More than 110 countries have adopted a new Plan of Action against illegal fishing in a bid to protect dwindling fish stocks, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said,