A multi-agency planning meeting was held in Kathmandu as the first step towards promoting the importance of sanitation and highlighting its impact on development. At the meeting were represenatives

The deadline set by the Green Bench of the Madras High Court for the dyeing and bleaching units at Tirupur to start the effluent treatment plants by May 11, failing which they must be closed down,

The end is in sight for the current El Nino weather phenomenon-but many countries still face weeks of upset climate. The long stretch of abonormally warm water in the central Pacific which is

The Phulpur unit of the fertiliser cooperative, IFFCO, has achieved 'zero effluent emission level' after instalment of various waste treatment units and pollution control equipment, company sources

A man-made plight of the drought prone people of the Kalahandi, synonymous with starvation death and hunger, is unlikely to change much by the turn of the century, if progress in the long-term action

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has bulldozed a 520-acre wooded area at Tilpat firing range near Hindon air force station, Ghaziabad, presumably in preparation for a fire power demonstration. The IAF has

Goa's efforts to control plastic and other non-biodegradable wastes have failed to make headway with its municipal administrations unable to implement its new garbage-control law. In January, amid

Once dominated by fringe activists, environmentalism is now an essential element of political reform-especially in the developing world, where the destruction of nature threatens to widen the gap

Workers began a massive clean up in the aftermath of toxic waste spill that has created one of Spain's worst ecological disasters. The owner of the mine, the Canadian-Swedish conglomerate Boliden

Special secretary to the lieutenant-governor of Delhi Kiran Bedi and actress Dina Pathak launched Gobar Times, the children's supplement of the magazine Down to Earth, and the environment education