The West Bengal Pollution Control Board has directed the owners of 10 rolling mills in Howrah district to close down manufacturing processes for not following board's directives in respect of

The World Bank will fund this financial year a project to study the environmental problem of urban growth centres in West Bengal, outside the Calcutta Metropolitan Area (CMA). An assessment of the

HC notice to State on probe: The Gujarat High Court has issued notices to the State Government and other authorities to show cause as to why a public interest litigation, alleging criminal negligence

In a bid to control industrial pollution, the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board will measure the impact of industrial production on the environment in all industrial areas in the State, which

The flood situation in Assam remained grim with 40 more villages submerged by fresh floods in the worsthit Dhemaji district today. The villages were submerged in fresh floods in the Jiadhol river

Pollution controls on new power plants are to be tightened at a cost of about Ecu2bn over 10 years, under proposals unveiled by the European Commission. The plan to halve permissable emissions of

A new interface with scientists on environment related issues is in the offing in the Third World as part of the latest initiative of the Global Environment Facility. Starting such an interaction

China is to undertake its largest environmental protection project on the Loess Plateau to control soil erosion and desertification. The project, which is expected in three decades, will become one

Noise pollution in the otherwise calm Bhopal city has gone beyond limits in the recent past with the result it has become a city which leads noise pollution table list second only to Calcutta in

The European Union's executive agency said it would take Ireland to court for failing to intergrate EU norms on water pollution into national legislation. The agency, the European Commission, also