The Science, Technology and Environment Ministrywill assist in the setting up of a National Research Centre on Air Pollution, said its deputy Minister Datuk Abu Bakar Daud. He said it could serve as

Delhi's coal-based power plants will soon get washed coal, which will reduce pollution to a considerable extent, replacing the currently used poor quality coal that produce a lot of fly-ash. The

Beijing, officially the most polluted city in China, has undertaken a massive campaign to clear its smoggy air by 2000. The murky metropolis plans to plant trees, curb vehicle and industrial

The Joint action forum of Indian people against World Trade Organisation (WTO) and anti-people policies is organising convention, rally and public meeting from April 29 to May 1 in the city to demand

Some notices and several warnings were issued to littering public on the first day of the clean city campaign launched by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation even as the latter emphasised more on

Panama Canal officials are struggling with a water shortage so severe that they recently took the unusual step of limiting the loads of some ships passing through. The El Nino weather phenomenon,

Greenpeace International welcomed Shell's announcement that the multinational oil company would be withdrawing its membership from the Global Climate Coalition: the US industry lobby group which

El Nino's fury can still be seen in the drought and raging blazes of Borneo. Now Asia must prepare for a possible deluge from La Nina : a

As dangerous and polluting industries show no sign of relocating out of the city, environmentalists are questioning the efficacy of Mumbai's industrial location policy. The major oil, chemical and

Climate change must be stopped to avoid large scale destruction of the Great Barrier Reef. This year high temperatures and extreme rainfall have caused the worst coral bleaching in decades on the