The Union Ministry for Environment and Forests is planning an Authority for environment protection for Chennai as in New Delhi and Mumbai. An assurance to this effect was given by the Union Minister

None-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) active in the field of environment have taken strong objection to the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) plans of changing the land-use pattern on the river bed.

A Delhi Development Authority proposal to set up a manufacturing unit near Rajghat has enraged environmentalists who say the unit will pollute the Yamuna and its surrounding area. The DDA proposes to

The Maharashtra Government's Environment Department has prepared a draft notification to ban plastic carry

The Ecological Society (ECOS) comprising of the ecologists of Nepal is organisinga three-day conference on Environment and Agriculture starting from November 1. It is being participated by more than

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced that the 1998 UNEP Sasakawa Environment Prize has been awarded to Mr. Ian Kiernan, founder of the Clean Up the World Campaign. The prize,

Japan will appeal against a World Trade Organisation panel ruling that its testing requirements for imported apples and other produce breach fair trade rules, Japan's agriculture ministry said. The

Coral reefs worldwide are bleaching and dying in record numbers, experts say, because of warmer-than-normal temperatures. Severe coral bleaching, which occurs when the limestone skeleton turns white

In yet another measure to control the growing levels of pollution, the government, has decided to reconstitute the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to make it a more efficient body. With