The Centre in consultation with the government of the National capital Territory of Delhi has prepared a White Paper on the status of pollution in Delhi, minister of state for environment and forests

With waters in the rain-swollen Yangtze River dangerously high and still rising, China is considering blowing up dikes and diverting flood waters into farm districts to save cities from flooding. As

Brick kilns in Punjab and elsewhere are apprehensive that the stringent laws being proposed by the ministry of environment and forests making working conditions difficult would eventually spell

A number of steps have been taken to control pollution in the vicinity of the Taj Mahal to check damage to the monument, minister of state Babu Lal Marandi said. The air quality is being regularly

With its dirty air and ineffective air pollution legislation South Africa is set to play host to the 11th World Clean Air and Environment Congress in Durban in September. Forty-six countries and

The Central Pollution Control Board(CPCB) has initiated action against several Haryana and Punjab-based industries for discharging untreated effluents into rivers. The board has invoked section five

Bangladesh prepared for a massive relief and rescue operation to tackle its worst floods in a decade. Nearly 100 people have died over the past two weeks and relief officials say half the country has

U.N. : The United Nations says the number and scale of environmental emergencies throughout the world are increasing at an alarming rate.

Rivers, their tributaries and nullahs in Solan district are being polluted by the waste being shed by different towns and industries. A major pollutant in the river water is the synthetic waste.

In the past few years the world has improved its ability to spot famine and feed the starving. But in Sudan and North Korea those efforts are not enough to prevent wide spread death from hunger and