Earth's environment has received scant respect from an industrialising world, the wages of which may have to be paid by posterity. In India, particularly, the rapidly diminishing green cover, so

The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has directed the slaughterhouse on Pottery Road to install a biological waste treatment plant and to commission it by the end of April this year, failing

The US and European Union fired fresh warning shots at the World Trade Organisation in their dispute over beef hormones which both sided say threatens to dwarf their dispute over bananas. US

The Pakistan government has issued instructions to the relevant departments to expedite reclamation of lands affected by waterlogging and salinity. A programme has already been launched to reclaim

Lat Krabang district officials in Thailand yesterday rushed to take water samples from Prathiew canal for tests after hundreds of fish were found floating dead in front of Wat Suthapote. Suparit

In a bid to uproot the illegal dumping of pollutants into South Korea's water systems, the Environment Ministry will conduct a three-day nationwide investigation of suspected polluters of four major

The Supreme Court yesterday directed Birla Textiles, closed since 1996, to pay Rs 30,000 each to nearly 2,000 workers pending the final decision on their dispute with the management. The mill was

The special sewan grass in the Thar desert of Rajasthan is facing extinction due to the changing ecology of the region. The grass, in its first stage of growth, provides fodder to animals, and when

Tomorrow is World Wetlands Day, an international initiative to promote understanding of the vital ecological and economic role of wetlands. The idea of a day dedicated to wetland conservation was

Delivering his policy statement at the opening of the 20th session of UNEP's Governing Council, UN Environment Programme Executive Director, Klaus Toepfer, said that the realisation of his vision for