Discharge of effluents into the river had caused large scale fish deaths, leading to the curbs

in a historic deal brokered by a British court, building materials firm Cape Plc has agreed to conditionally pay us $30 million to South African miners who blame the company for contracting

hudson river, flowing through many us cities, will soon be depolluted. The us Environmental Protection Agency (epa) recently gave a nod to a massive

a dam project proposed in 1966 has again been delayed, thanks to the

The UN world food body has reached a landmark agreement for saving the diversity of agricultural crops. Members of the body, including the US, have decided to make it mandatory for plant breeders and

a long-running court battle in Japan over air pollution from highway traffic ended in December 2000, with an out of court settlement. The Japanese government and the Hanshin Expressway Public

a multi-billion dollar civil lawsuit

the us department of justice has ordered a shipping company to pay compen-sation for an oil spill, which killed millions of lobsters and other wildlife of the Block Island Sound, near Rhode

A Miami jury slams unprecedented punitive damages on tobacco companies, who will appeal the verdict

Compensation for pollution victims urged