Ramagundam, a once barren and sun-scorched land, is often referred to as 'Agnigundam' (a fire ball) of Andhra Pradesh with temperatures soaring up to 48 degrees centigrade during the peak summer

Britain is sounding out opinion on potential oil industry damage to the environment west of the Shetland Islands ahead of fresh exploration in a region seen by green campaigners as an extremely

The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) said yesterday it aimed to launch a market place for green electricity by 2001 to stimulate the use of renewable energy and reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. "We

A UK energy NGO has launched a government-backed label for shoppers to instantly recognise the most energy efficient appliances, whilst criticising Britons' lack of consideration for energy

The Western Port of the City of Malmo in Sweden has won the Grand Prize at the First Community Awards for Renewable Energy Sources.The awards ceremony took place at the Conference on the Campaign for

Despite the risk of setting off more political feuding, Taiwan's new premier announced Friday that the government would scrap plans for a partially completed nuclear power plant.Premier Chang

At the end of the Fergana VAlley (Kyrgyzstan) stands a Soviet-era uranium processing plant whose estimated 2 million cubic meters of radioactive waste represent a potential environmental disaster. It

A cosortium of environmental organisations officially presented 2.5m signatures to the Russian authorities in an effort to force a referendum on plans to import, process and store nuclear

In a significant step toward the goal of forcing a national referendum on nuclear waste, St. Petersburg environmentalists joined colleagues across Russia in handing over a petition on the subject

Last week, the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) slammed a notice on the Gujarat Electricity Board (GEB) saying that the power station was not complying to the GPCB norms as far as controlling