Amid the deluges in Asia, two places that need rain the most - Indonesia's Sumatra and West Kallimantan - have been largely precipitation-free as the dry weather takes hold. Once again, vast tracts

The population pressures on Asia's cities is enormous. Although major cities are growing at about 2.5% annually, secondary and regional cities are swelling by as much as 4% each year from the rural

Environmental awareness is growing. But Asia still has a long way to go. And time may be running out. In terms of awareness Japan is certainly in the lead. In a recent survey by the Yomiuri Shimbun

As rescue workers continued to pull survivors from the ruins of buildings destroyed in the shattering earthquake in western Turkey, the first estimates of economic damage said that losses would reach

Greenpeace Internation senior scientist Pat Costner has appealed to the People of Gujarat not to be taken in by Common Effluent TReatment Plants (CETPs), incinerators and land-fill sites proposed by

The increasing pollution has become a matter of distress for people and it is disturbing the life particularly in the localities along major road networks. The Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation has no

The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board(TNPCB) has ordered 80 industrial units in the state to close down on charges of discharging polluting effluents in rivers and lakes. These units will not be

An environmental watchdog is suing Indonesian President Bacharuddin Habibie over a failed government project to develop one million hectares of peat bog in Borneo. The legal programme co-ordinator

Chemical waste from Ratchaburi province textile factories has been blamed for the deaths of over 1,000 fish in a canal in neighbouring picturesque Amphawa district of Thailand. The fish were found

Turkey ordered two million people in one of its cities to abandon their homes for fear of another earthquake as the death toll from Tuesday's tremor doubled yesterday to nearly 7,000. "Our citizens