Greenpeace has denounced as "ill-conceived" the plans by the French plutonium company COGEMA to dredge the sea bed around its La Hague reprocessing plant. The Director of the state-controlled plant,

Environmental pollution could be responsible for forty per cent of all deaths worldwide. And global warming will make matters worse, claims a team of US researchers at Cornell University, New

As many as 11 Maharashtra districts have been identified as earthquake-prone areas. The Maharashtra Disaster Management Plan prepared by the state government has identified Mumbai, Latur, Beed,

As the German Greens Party stands on the threshold of sharing national power for the first time in Europe's most powerful state, ecologists have become chaotic but influential players in West

The World Bank, which aided the relief and rehabilitation efforts after the massive earthquakes of September 30, 1993 that Latur and Osmanabad regions, has complimented the Maharashtra Government's

As many as 19,580 villages of Rajasthan, reeling under severe drought conditions, have been declared as "scarcity-hit" regions. A state Cabinet meeting, held last evening under the charimanship of

Mattel, the world largest toy company, announced that, as of 1999, it will commit to the elimination of the hazardous additives phthalates in the teething toys designed for children under 3 years.

A six-month study, released by the Dutch government, to establish a good standard test to measure the rate of leaching of chemical additives from soft PVC toys has failed in its mission, warns

A reported collision between an oil tanker and the Shiehallion Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading vessel on the Atlantic Frontier on 25th September 1998, is exactly what the oil industry

Greenpeace activists build a dam in Haifa bay to stop effluents reaching Mediterranean. The toxic effluents came mainly from the heavy petrochemical industry along the river. The names of the main