There has been more deterioration of ancient site, historic structures and heritge properties during the past 20 years than in the 2,000 years that preceded it. The air pollution caused by industrial

Texas governor George W. Bush declared a state of emergency in two-thirds of the state's countries on Thursday due to the threat of wildfires caused by a severe

Discharge of effluents from Grasim Industries' unit near the Chaliyar river would not contaminate the river in any manner and there was full safety for the drinking water, Grasim President Mr. R.N.

For one of the most polluted cities of India, the Delhi Government proposes to cut down on the spending on environment and yet promote tourism by spending more. According to the Government's Annual

The Committee on Government Assurances today asked the Centre to speed up cleaning of the river Chaliyar in Kerala by ensuring that the Grasim Industries complied with pollution control norms. "Even

Government hospitals and other health institutions in the state will now have to pay a pollution tax to the Punjab Pollution Control Board unter the Water Cess Act, 1977, enacted for preventing and

The unpredictable weather this winter may have been a puzzle for forecasters, but the rise in air-pollution was expected. But what came as a surprise was the tremendous rise in suspended particulate

The Madhya Pradesh government has spent only Rs 104.19 crore on medical rehabilitation of Bhopal gas victims as against an allocation of Rs 150.35 crore between April 1990 and December 1998. This

The global conservation body WWF International early this week warned the World Trade Organisation (WTO) it could lose most public support unless it focused more on environmental and development

Any primary schoolteacher knows a disturbing fact of life in Mexico's capital: children rarely use the colour blue when they paint the sky inone of the world's most polluted cities. Most, like