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

Norwegians, who pride themselves on their green attitudes, are the most environmentally destructive people on Earth, a report by the World Wide Fund for Nature has said. The study found that

Over four lakh acres of land have been accreted from sea beds in off-shore islands and coastal areas of Chittagong district since the Liberation of Bangladesh. The century's worst ever devasting

Upto the middle of the nineteenth century the main pollutants in the interior of Goa - now part of the badly ravaged mining belt were biodegradable wastes, mainly sewage. But this changed as mining

Medical establishements handling more than 1,000 patients a month will now need permission frm a designated authority to install bio-wastes disposal facilities as required under the Biomedical

Environmental campaigners are becoming more vocal in arguing that world trade is already too free for the planet's good. And if they are cross about NAFTA, they are hopping mad about the WTO. They

The Tarapur-Vapi stretch of the golden corrider may land this part of Maharasthtra in an ecological problem. International Institute of Sustaibale Future director Rashmi Mayur has warned. Dr Mayur

Throughout northern China, an estimated 550 million people do not have enough water. Four hundred of China's 600 cities live with water shortages. Rivers are running dry; lakes are parched bowls of

The first unit of the Faridabad sewage treatment plant, constructed at a cost of Rs 55 crore under the Yamuna action plan, was commissioned on Thursday by Haryana chief minister Bansi Lal, at village

The Karnataka government was against the township as the project posed pollution risk. Mr. Patel told reporters at his native Kariganur village. "We cannot take the risk of polluting water from the