Toxic fumes billowed from a well in the UniversityMalaya grounds yesterday, quickly spreading over 100m from the site used as a dump for chemicals. The well, said to be at least 20 years old, is

Hundreds of handloom dyeing units in the Coimbatore-Salem belt in Tamil Nadu will have to remain closed till the conditions set by the Supreme Court and the Madras High Court are met by them.The

Special environment surveillance squads will now keep tabs on industrial units across the country, that are guilty of polluting the environment. In the light of the fact that an increasing number of

The village of Arop was built on a sand spit and had a population of about 2,000. It no longer exists.The official death toll on Monday was at least 700, but John Tekwi, governor of West Sepik

The Government is completely recasting its environmental clearance procedures in order to ensure that projects that come to the Environment Ministry are sanctioned speedily. Top sources in the

Thousands of Indonesians fled villages on the slopes of the Merapi volcano in central Java which erupted spewing ash, lava and deadly heatclouds, reports and officials said on Monday.Some 6.000

A major relief operation was under way on Sunday to find survivors of a tidal wave that killed an estimated 1,500 people in villages on a Papua New Guinea lagoon. Six hundred victims, mostly children

Construction materials account for about 90% of illegal waste dumping in Japan. That's one reason the government aims to clean house with new rules this year. Starting in fiscal 1999, the

Having come out of the environmental tangle, tanneries in the country, especially those in Tamil Nadu , are now confronted with a new problem-that of equipping themselves to manufacture high quality

"People in Delhi have become insensitive to the problems we are facing," said environmentalist lawyer M.C. Mehta at the inauguration of the one-day symposium conducted by the Programme for