Altona's lacklustre railway station is to be given a facelift, the local wetlands are about to be replanted and regenerated and a Murray River island is to be saved from infestation by weeds. These

Gujarat plans to develop a hospital waste management plan with the help of US agencies. State health minister Ashok Bhatt said a plan has been drawn up to eradicate bio-medical waste which will get a

The hosiery dyeing and bleaching units in Tirupur are expected to catch up with the November 23 deadline fixed by the Supreme Court for complying with pollution control norms of the State pollution

The Supreme Court has ordered notice to the Tamil Nadu Government, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board and the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Chennai, on a petition filed

The Supreme Court today dismissed petitions by eight imams of Calcutta challenging the show-cause notices issued to them in contempt proceedings by the Calcutta High Court for flouting a court order

Northwest China's Gansu province yielded economic benefits of over 440 million yuan during 1998 thanks to the comprehensive use of wastewater and gas and solid waste materials. The province

The US has warned that Japan's refusal to implement voluntary tariff cuts in fish and forest trade could threaten the success of the forthcoming Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) summit. Mark

Bangkok launched an ambitious plan to contract out city services worth considerably more than $1bn to private companies in an attempt to contain the environmental problems in Asia's most polluted

An international conference on climate change has opened with a debate over a proposal by the host nation, Argentina, challenging fellow developing nations to adopt voluntary limits on emissions of

The Tenth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, to be held in Cairo from 18 to 24 November 1998, is the annual meeting in which the Parties