Even as fully grown 40 eucalyptus trees were razed to the ground in Vadodara last month, the Vadodara Municipal Corporation is all set to chop down as many as 100 palm trees (more than 40-year-old)

Some U.S. electric utilities are spinning gold out the gunk they once spewed in the air. To comply with the 1970 Clean Air Act, power companies have been "scrubbing" the smoke coming out of their

Green groups have attacked the Hong Kong government progress on environmental issues as "a bureaucratic nightmare". The administration has given 43 environmental pledges, but only eight have been

Union minister for railways Nitish Kumar announced that the railway would discontinue the use of disposable plastic and polythene items by the end of this year as part of a national efort to check

notices issued to three states : Close on the heels of a public interest petition filed by vice-chairman of the Bar Council of Gujarat Hoshang Mirza, another public interest petition has been filed

The Rajasthan government's decision to undertake full-scale relief in 18 drought-affected districts from october 1 is stuck in electoral tangle. The relief department has sought clarification from

As part of the comtemporary concerns related to recurrent natural calamities, depletion of flora and fauna and tourism, the government post-graduate colleges of Rishikish and Uttarkashi are hosting

In the wake of a major climate coference in Kyoto last Decemeber, leading Japanese companies are hustling to show how friendly they are to the environment. They have started to release reports on

Shimizu Corp. of Japan has developed a method to assess the impact of large construction projects on mountainous environmentas by observing the behavior of wild animals in the area. The major general

Ground realities have hit the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) Slum Sanitation Programme for constructing toilets in slums located on municipal land. Sites for building the toilets are