Anhui Province in east China is set to improve the water quality of Chaohu Lake, around which are 109 enterprises, each of them producing more than 100 tons of waste water every day. All the

China has used overseas funds of close to 4.7 billion US dollars for environmental protection projects over the past three years. The 4.7 billion dollars actually used by the end of last year

Big developing countries, including Brazil and India, are leading an effort to hobble a World Bank inspection panel created five years ago to handle complaints about whether World Bank-financed

Pollution of river waters has been an increasing concern for Bangladesh. A report from Chittagong tells us that the water of the river Karnaphuli is now being so polluted by oil spills and garbage

The Centre has granted environmental clearance to the State Government's long pending ambitious Rs 350-crore Worli-Bandra sea link project aimed at providing additional link between the island city

The environment debate is at a crossroads in Australia. With climate change and land and sea degradation of growing concern, the need to act is more pressing than ever. Yet conservation has all but

Local environmental groups in South Korea yesterday strongly demanded an end to a large-scale reclamation project now under way on the southwestern coast of the nation. "The project should be

The Supreme Court yesterday ordered the closure of 150 handloom units in the Tirupur and Karur belts of Tamil Nadu for failing to set up effluent treatment plants. While many other units are setting

A National Regulation on Wetland Conservation is being drafted and will be submitted to the State Council for approval by the end of this year, said Wang Hongjie, an official with the Department of

Big business has discovered that, by reducing their use of materials - such as wood, metal, stone and plastics - and recycling old manufacturing parts, leads to increased profits, says a new