A drought in eastern Cuba has seriously affected food crops, livestock and water supplies, adding a further problem to the troubled economic outlook this year for the Caribbean island. Initial

A proposed bridge connecting Uruguay and River Plate estuary is generating increasing opposition in both countries, despite efforts to promote the project for increasing trade ties. The project is

Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's largest car manufacturer, said that it will start an afforestation business in Australia in August, along with Nippon Paper Industries Co. and trading house Mitsui & Co.

Several state pollution control boards(SPCBs) have asked the Union environment and forests ministry for powers to fine polluting industries. They have pleaded that their current powers to prosecute

high levels of plutonium has been found in sediments at the end of Sellafield nuclear discharge pipeline. It even exceeds plutonium contamination levels found in the sea at Russia's Novaya

the environment is an important top-of-the-mind concern, particularly in urban India and China, says an inter

Minister : The Ministry of Environment has defended a policy allowing the United States to dump its discarded ships on Indian coasts endangering life and ecology. "There is no significant hazard to

The waters of the Bay of Bengal off the Visakhapatnam Coast have substantial levels of toxic heavy metals like copper, lead and zinc, a Geological Survey of India (GSI) appraisla has shown. The

CSR Ltd promised to reconsider plans to open a waste dump at Werribee after residents protested at the company's annual general meeting in Sydney yesterday. The CSR chairman, Mr Ian Burgess, said the

Coastal zone regulations (CZR) should be relaxed in the five special tourism areas --Bekal Beach (Kerala) , Diu,Mamallapuram (Tamil Nadu) , Puri (Orissa) and Sindhudurg (Maharashtra) -- for the