Two environmental projects proposed in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have been selected for Rs. 5.96 crores grant by the Indo-Canadian Environmental Facility (ICEF), a joint initiative of the

Canada will begin banning imports from China that are packed in untreated wooden crates out of concern the crates may carry a tree-eating beetle, Canadian trade officials said on Friday. 'Basically,

The World Bank has lauded the expanding private sector investments in industrial pollution control and common effluent treatment plants in India. In its annual review on environment matters, the Bank

US election results cheered not only Democrats but conservationists as well. Montana voters banned the use of cyanide leaching at open pit gold mines, a technique lethal to rivers and streams.

Top marine scientists have called on World Heritage authorities to send a field mission to the Great Barrier Reef to help avert the 'slow death'' of a priceless ecosystem. Their confidential letter

The Sixth World Wilderness Conference has conferred the 'Corporate Environment Achievement Award ' on Tata House, Captain C P Krishnan Nair, chairman of Leela group of hotels, Mr S P Godrej,

Man ultimately stands to lose out in his battle with the ocean if things go on as at presnt. That was the thrust of Saturday's one-day seminar held at Delhi by the Society for Indian Ocean studies.

After politicians, environmentalists are also raring to go this elections. Some have come out with exclusive green agenda for different parties. Vatavaran director Iqbal Malik has laid down an

THE World Bank is promising that it will not tolerate any breach of its environmental and social policies - even as decentralisation in lending operations makes it tougher to keep track of projects.

A shortage of food added to fears of epidemics in the central American regions devastated by the deadliest Atlantic storm in 200 years, and pleas for aid continued to mount. The former Hurricane