Water pollution levels in South Korea's four major rivers improved slightly in July, compared to June, and were also better than those in July of last year, but they still fell short of permissible

An earthquake measuring an estimated 5.0 on the Richter Scale jolted the San Francisco area on Tuesday, breaking glass and sweeping items off shelves but apparently causing no

The Turkish authorities ignored quake warnings from Japanese experts, who usd the lessons of the 1995 Kobe disaster that left 6,430 dead, officials said on

A volcano erupted under Europe's biggest glacier, in Iceland, witnesses said, spewing smoke and ash 10 kilometers into the sky and threatening to melt large parts of the ice cap. Scientists said the

The local administration of South Salmara-Mankachar sub-division of Dhubri district in a marathon eviction drive, drove away a number of well-established and fully-settled families earlier victimised

Industrial units of Punjab will have to submit bank guarantees for the installation and operation of pollution control devices. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the State Pollution

The idea of the Tata Steel cement division first came up as the Tata group's considered managerial response to the high pollution perptrated in Jamshedpur, Bihar, by generation of blast furnace slag

American mega-droughts over decades and dwarfing even the 1930s' 'Dust Bowl" could again wreck the nation's Great Plains agricultural" bread basket" next century, US scientists warned. Paleoclimatic

China's capital Beijing on Friday banned the burning of coal and introduced new authomobile emission standards as part of a sweeping plan to stamp out pollution, state media said. Most buildings in

The Centre has directed the Delhi govenemnt to take steps to prevent the dumping of adulterated mustard oil, which caused the dropsy epidemic killing more than 60 people, into the Yamuna river and