The powerful earthquake in Turkey has claimed 3,479 lives and injured 16,782 people as of 2:30 p.m. (1130 GMT), the government crisis centre said in a communique at Ankara on Wednesday. The Centre

Sprawl makes creeks spill : It came as little surprise to anyone with a passing knowledge of local history that the Assunpink Creek would leap over its banks, surge onto local streets and disable the

The government has asked the polluting industries to submit a report within a week on the steps they were planning to take to treat effluent in the Capital. At a high-level meeting on Saturday , the

Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has issued a draft notification making it compulsory for all civic bodies to ensure that the garbage generated from households and commercial

International NGO Greenpeace has called upon Grasim's viscose staple fibre factory at Mavoor in Kerala to recompense for environmental and health damage, holding that the corporate should be held

Opposition is mounting in the US Congress to a proposed World Trade Organisation agreement to eliminate global tariffs on paper and wood products, on the grounds that it could encourage unsustainable

The clean water act has been on the books in the United States for a quarter century. Most of the time has been spent reducing pollution from large individual sources, mainly factories and sewage

In a strange incident that occured on Independence Day, villagers beat up a panchayat chief in south Goa, in protest over an allegedly polluting and controversial industrial plant being set up in the

The Chinese government and Tibet support groups are intensifying their tug-of-war over a World Bank-funded resettlement project that officials claim will combat poverty but which the groups say

More than a decade after the Ganga Action Paln was launched, the government will ask the people for money to clean up the holy river. The decision to set up the multicrore Ganga Trust Fund taken by