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British Deputy Prime Minster John Prescott, who is also the Environment and Transport Minister, arrived in the capital for bilateral discussions on environmental

More than 14 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, a controversy has sparked at Bhopal over the demand for declaring entire Bhopal gas affected area for providing compensation to the victims of the

Untreated effluent from the Hazaribagh tanneries in Dhaka city are creating a pollution hazard not only in their own neighbourhood but in an adjoining area simply because the pipeline built for

Recovery of aluminium from European carsat the end of their life will increase along with expanding use of the metal in vehicles, Fritz Roesch of Alcan Deutschland said at an industry conference.

The MDMK demanded on Wednesday immediate closure of the Sterlite copper smelting plant at Tuticorin and threatened to launch an agitation in support of the demand. Expressing anguish over Tuesday's

Shandong Province in China is experiencing the worst dry spell of the century. The drought has affected more than 2 million hectares of farmland. Less than 36 millimetres of precipitation has fallen

A survey by a residents' organization has found that at least 15 families within a 500-meter radius of a processing facility for nonburnable refuse in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, have moved out because of

The newsreport that pollution in the Narayani river (Nepal) is on the rise is indeed alarming. For it is on this river that a large number of aquatic, amphibious, terrestrial creatures and birds

East China's Zhejiang Province, a major economic powerhouse on the East China Sea, has introduced a licensing system for the use of marine resources. The first group of enterprises, including a

Some 1.3 million people living in the lake area of Huaihe, China's fourth largest freshwater lake, have witnessed a resurgence of the local fishing industry resulting from the success of the ongoing

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