As the ghastly scale of the death toll in Turkey's earthquake became apparent in the days after the tremor, so did the tardiness of the official rescue and relief effort. After the shock and grief of

Am staimated 270,000 North Koreans died of famine between 1995 and 1998 out of a total of 1.02 million deaths in that period, South Korea's National Statistical Office said on Friday. It added in a

'Prioritise eco compliance': The pollution control baords and commitees have to play a pivotal role in promoting the establishment and maintenance of enviornmental management systems as a tool to

Of the 99 stretches of the Yamuna river its tributaries studied by the Central Pollution Control Board, four have water of acceptable quality. The filthiest section of the river is in Delhi. The

People are eating cats and dogs in the central Angolan city of Huambo, where food supplies have all but disappeared, missionaries said. "The situation is tragic and unheard of in the history of the

The recommendations of a two-member scientific team set up by the Central government in 1984 to study how pollution could be controlled in the Patalganga river have not heen fully implemented , say

Revenues from environmental taxes in UK increased by 60 per cent in real terms between 1990 and 1998, according to an innovative environmental section included within the national accounts.

Environmental Protection Agency investigators have found fundamental weaknesses in a major national air pollution control program that have allowed many "significant violators" of federal and state

The recent spate of municipal workers opting for retrenchment packages is hampering scientific efforts to monitor the crisis at Wildevolvlei, near Kommetjie (South Africa), where highly toxic

Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Corp has said it would send a team including environmental experts and lawyers to Cambodia to try resolve a row over mercury tainted industrial waste dumped there. "The