The ocean used to seem infinite in its bounty. But now it is suffering from overfishing and pollution. Wherever humanity meets the sea, the sea comes off worse. Two-thirds of the worlds's 5.5 billion

A few drops of contaminated water appears to have succeeded where thousands of demonstrators failed. The Bonn government has halted the transport within Germany and abroad of all radioactive waste

The Indian delegation under the leadership of the Union Environment Minister, Suresh P Prabhu, succeeded, at the fourth conference of parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in

A storm that battered Bangladesh's south-eastern coast killed at least 29 people and left more than 100 others missing in the Bay of Bengal, voluntary organisations and monitors said on

The Sisamau nullah releasing 120 million litres per day (MLD) of sewage into the Ganges is proud enough of the failure of the much-hyped Ganga action plan (GAP). Several visits by senior members of

Senate negotiators blocked an effort by the House to grant manufacturing gaint General Electric Co. a temporary reprieve from a $1 billion cleanup of polluted waterways in New York and Masschusetts

Vacationers seeking the cleanest bathing waters in the European Union should head for Greek and Italian beaches or Irish and Austrian lakes, according to the European Commission's 1997 bathing water

The Environment Ministry of Germany halted until further notice the transport of all combustible nuclear material within Germany and other countries after revelations of contamination in convoys

The Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) will help the Patna civic authorities to desilt the city's clogged sewerage

Recommendations of the feasibility study on the common effluent treatment plant at Kurkumbh in Baramati district in Maharashtra are to be submitted by June. Pilot plant surveys for this plant with a