Italian researchers have discovered a link between air pollution and sperm health. A separate European study shows a link between sulphur dioxide and heart problems. A study by Dr Michele De Rosa and

A recent report by the United Nations Environment Program warns that Afghanistan faces a future eithout forests, clean water, wildlife or unpolluted air if current continue. The report says

Forests and Environment Minister R Vaithilingam announced that the Tamil Nadu state government would launch a Rs 779 crore afforestation project covering 2,50,000 hectares in five years from 2003-04.

The merciless summer ahead threatens to sound the death knell for quite a few trees in the Chennai city, Tamil Nadu. With the authorities concerned continuing to be apathetic, even full grown trees

The hazards faced by research scholars in pursuit of their projects are common knowledge. But they require an even greater dimension when the 'scholar' is a 11 year old boy and the project is about

Every one out of four children in Kochi is asthmatic and this number is likely to go up in the coming years as the pollution levels in the city keep increasing. And the doctors are concerned by the

The age profile of the asthmatic is getting younger by the day in Chennai, thanks to increasingly toxic air, doctors say. The facts speak for themselves: A study done in 2000 by the Department of

The Centre has sanctioned the first two phases of a comprehensive underground sewerage system for Madurai at an estimated cost of Rs 112.76 crore. A PIB press release said the scheme was announced by

Hindustan Level Limited clarified that their Personal Products Factory of the company did not discharge any chemical waste in Panapakkam, near Sriperumbaur in Kancheepuram district of Tamil Nadu. In

Steps would be taken to distribute solatium to the drought affected farmers in Karaikal region in 10 days time, N Rangasamy, Pondicherry Chief Minister, said in Karaikal in Tamil