The Nagoya municipal government said additional traces of trichloroethylene have been detected in underground water at Toshiba Corp's Nagoya plant site, where an abnormally high level of the cancer

Germany's Greens, bidding for a place in government after the election in September, stripped a number of disputed environmental and pacifist policies from their campaign

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will provide a grant of $280,000 (Rs 1.1 crores) for setting up a conservation education centre in Goa.To be implemented by the Worldwide Fund for

The Nagaland Government has banned use of polythene bags by traders in the state capital. Official sources in Kohima said that the Deputy Commissioner V Sekhose, in an order, banned the use of

Two earthquakes rocked Tibet on Saturday evening, but there were no reports of casualties, Xinhua news agency said on

Aid workers were trying on Sunday to assess whether serious disease has broken out in remote villages of northern Afghanistan that were damaged in last week-end's earthquake. The quake killed up to

The country lacks maritime awareness, and the ocean has been neglected for decades, according to the Director General, Coast Guard, Vice Admiral R.N. Ganesan. Addressing a seminar on Marine Pollution

Despite all possible memasures taken by the Himachal Pradesh, Government to keep the state free from industrial pollution, brick-kilns located in Nadaunm subdivsion in this district are posing a

Minister : Minister for Environment and Science and Technology Prasanna Kumar Das has criticised the nuclear tests carried out by the country saying the environment would be adversely affected due to

Union Minister for Environment and Forests Suresh Prabhu gave "Environment Activist" of the year award to the Surya Roshini Limited Chairman and Managing director Basudev