Social crusader Anna Hazare is back in action. He went on a 'maun' (silence) after midnight on Sunday at his 'karma-bhoomi' Ralegan Siddhi, to protest against the delay in action against officials

The U.S. death toll from a vicious heatwave in recent days has climbed heatwave in recent days has climbed to 144 with up to 50 fatalities in Chicago in just a 24-hour period, The Washington Post

The U.S. toll from a vicious heatwave in recent days has climbed to 144 with up to 50 fatalities in Chicago in just a 24-hour period. But after 12 days of swelter, meteorologists said a cold front

The report submitted by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), at the instance of the Madras High Court, on the Tuticorin based copper smelter of Sterlite Industries

Eradicating malnutrition among 200,000 children in Orissa may appear an awesome task but the ANganwadi workers entrusted with the job under a United Nations and centrally assisted scheme are

More used batteries are being recovered in Beijing as the public is becoming more aware of the contamination they could cause if not disposed of properly, officials with Beijing Environmental

In a significant step towards checking pollution in Delhi, the Indian Oil Corporation has started supplying to the city ultra low sulphur diesel (ULSD) with a sulphur content of 0.05 per cent, which

The Central Pollution Control Board(CPCB) is in favour of amalgamating the provisions of ISO 14001 system for attaining regulatory compliance of prevailing national environmental laws with the ISO

In the regional battle over air pollution that blows from the Midwest to the Northeast of U.S. , states on both sides have rejected a proposed compromise, all but guaranteeing that the long-running

Nine months after the hurricane called Mitch raged across Central America and prompted an unprecedented outpouring of aid, most survivors at Casitas volcano in Posoltega still camp in plastic huts