Protesters gathered outside City Hall to protest at plans to create protected green zones around Bangkok. City chiefs have drawn up a master plan, due to come into effect in July, which will affect

The United States Asia Environmental Partnership has set up its first Clean Technology Environmental Management (CTEM) centre at Mumbai in partnership with the Thane Industrial Association. The

The Australian Green activist, Mr. Ian Kiernan, has been awarded the prestigious Sarakawa Environment Prize for 1998 by the United Nations for his contribution to the worldwide campaign for a clean

From next year US regulators are to force power-plants to test the coal they burn for traces of the toxic metal mercury. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will also require a selected number

Environmental Protection Bureaus around the Bohai Bay are jointly formulating a ten-year pollution treatment program on the Bohai Sea, according to the Tianhin Environmental Protection Bureau.

A majority of the 600 and odd dyeing and bleaching units in Karur town are yet to get their effluent treatment plants in place even as the six-month reprieve given to them by the Government to

Thailand's Forestry Department yesterday halted pre-production work on The Beach saying a committee must first look at the pros and cons of filming on Phi Phi island before saying whether it should

The West Coast National Park in South Africa is struggling to buy "critical" land from its owner, Kassie Wiehahn. Kassie Wiehahn is not only sitting on pristine property at Oudekraal, but also on

Phulpur unit of fertiliser cooperative giant Iffco has achieved "zero effluent emmission level" after installing various waste treatment units and pollution control equipments. The unit, which has

Study :Noise pollution levels on Diwali this year did not show restraint even as air pollution levels declined. Noise levels in 1998 was between 66 decibels and 103 decibels, as compared to 72.3