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

Central America has suffered the worst natural disaster in its modern history. Recovery could take its two worst-hit countries a generation : a

On November 2nd, policymakers and environmentalists descended on Buenos Aires for a two-week UN conference on global warming. A similar gathering in Kyoto last year resulted in a dramatic, but

The North-Eastern region is going to be affected by acid rains because of the high coal-based industrial activities in the neighbouring States of West Bengal and Bihar, according to a study. A

The Union Minitry of Environment and Forests has constituted an experts committee to review some of the conditions attached to the "environmental clearance" for the East Coast Road (ECR) project in

Under way in Buenos Aires is a giant international conference on global warming, a follow-up to last December's United Nations-sponsored confab in Kyoto, Japan. Delegates to the meeting aim to put

Planeloads of food, medical personnel, sniffer dogs and even demining teams have arrived in Central America as the international community pledged $115 million to help victims of this region's worst

Industries in Tamil Nadu have the unique and dubious distinction of being hit en bloc twice by court orders for violation of environmental laws. Sometime in 1996 the Supreme Court ordered the closure