The green bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday sought suggestions from National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) on the various minimum steps that Sterlite Industries Ltd.

A plan to use flood barriers like those on the Thames below London to save Venice from flooding is likely to be abandoned this week because critics say it will harm the environment. The pound 1.5

The tragic earthquake in Greece and the enormous devastation and suffering wrought by the recent earthquake in Turkey are reminders of one of the most pressing challenges of our time : the

Don't only talk, do something to stop soil erosion : With the advent of monsoon, thousands of tonnes of soil and debris from Nepal's fragile mountains begin to erode with raging floods and finally

Experts expressed grave concern over the destruction and depletion of natural resources in the Western Ghats. A group of environmentalists, scientists and administrators, who gathered in Shimoga to

Till the first week of September, Saurashtra and Kutch received 60 per cent less rainfall and North and South Gujarat 22 per cent less than the normal rainfal thus signalling the total failure of

Late-night rescues buoyed the spirits of emergency teams working around the clock, but there were few signs of life from dozens believed to be still trapped in crumbled buildings as the death toll

The political parties are yet to wake up to the threats of environmental pollution and at times they need to be told about it. The pollution of the world famous lakes of Udaipur caught the attention

There is more to it than meets the eye in the ongoing controversy between the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-India and WWF-International over the "maps" issue. The India maps published in about a

With the smog season winding down in the East, preliminary figures from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency show that air quality this summer for Eastern cities has been among the worst in the