Industrial effluent, a major contributor to river pollution, can be made safer by emphasizing the use of organic elements and a slower but steadier rate of discharge during the manufacturing process,

The toxic spill in southern Spain has cost millions of dollars in crop losses and left thousands of acres of farmland barren for the next 25 years, the Confederation of Farmers and Livestock

Britain could be vulnerable to catastrophic flooding without a significant increase in funding for the nation's flood defences, flood defence officials warned. Geoff Mance, water management director

Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister M C Nanaiah today stated in the Legislative Assembly that the Government intends to take up Rs 17 crore project to treat sewage before letting it into Bellandur

Over a week after the Dasnagar disaster, the PCB has decided to drag the Customs and Port authorities to court. The PCB has prepared a report indicting the two agencies for violation of the statutes

Greenpeace dispatched its flagship, the MV Greenpeace to the mouth of the Guadalquivir river in southern Spain in order to join local ecologist in fighting the effects of a huge toxic spill. The

Heavy flooding in eastern Afghanistan has killed 35 people with the west and centre of the war-torn country also badly hit by heavy spring rains, official sources and aid workers said on

The Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) for the National Capital Region has called upon the city's hospitals to give it the action taken reports on the safe handling of hospital waste. At

The Yamuna river, Rs 400 crore spent on cleaning it notwithstanding, is highly polluted between Delhi and Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, the Delhi High Court was informed today. The Central government

Incinerators used by several hospitals in the Capital are not properly desgined and operated. This was revealed in the investigations conducted by the Central Pollution Control Board, recently. The