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

11 hospitalised: Eleven persons - nine All India Radio(AIR) personnel and two women constables - were admitted to the government Medical College hospital here this morning when they complained of

Environment officials are extremely upset over the allocation made by finace minister Yashwant Sinha for the ministry in this year's budget. In real terms, taking inflation into account, the

All is not well with the Narayani river. As the industrial and domestic wastes are directly discharged into the crystal clear waters of the mighty rivers, Nepal's third largest river is getting

The U.S. Energy Department plans to announce this week that it wants to build two plants, at a cost of nearly $200 million each, that will gradually turn 1.5 billion pounds of depleted uranium into

Every government department has on offer at least on real solution for improving the Yamuna. Each one claims that their proposal had been approved even as letters fly between departments raising

The government has proposed a five-year tax holidy to private sector companies engaged in the business of biodegradable waste management. The benefit would be confined to the use of biodegradable

The standing committee on urban and rural development 1998-99 of the 12th Lok Sabha has expressed its concern over the fact that the government has not eveolved any mechanism to maintain the

Researchers have spent the past month "fertilising" a large area of the southern ocean with iron filings with the hope of boosting plankton growth and "sinking" greenhouse gases.The multinational

As breakneck economic growth transforms China into an environmental disaster zone, a few devoted activists are struggling to turn things around - before it's too late : a