The closure of tanneries during 1996-97 in the wake of orders of the Supreme Court seriously affected the turnover of the Tamil Nadu Leather Development Corporation (TALCO) but made little difference

A delegation of Indian fish exporters is being sent to Europe on a public relations exercise to defend the quality of its sea food. The campaign in defence of its fish follows a ban on fish imports

A drought brought on by the weather phenomenon El Nino has gripped the Panama Canal for 14 months, lowering its water level, and has forced authorities, for the first time since 1983, to limit the

A report released argues that radioactive pigeons at Britain's Sellafield plutonium reprocessing site may well indicate widespread and unexamined contamination of the general public and environment.

Scientists at the G.B.Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development at Almora have drawn attention to the urgent need for developing an action-oriented network programme to protect

A thick layer of flyash in the air made driving on the Outer Ring Road a nightmare on Wednesday. Blowing from the sides of the IP thermal power plant and also near the Nizamuddin bridge, the ash

River waters in Himachal Pradesh has become contaminated as infectious waste from hospitals is flowing into the water sources in most of the towns. A study conducted by the state pollution control

In megacities there will be mega problems. And they all seemed to be looking for solutions to these mega problems. Representatives of municipal corporations of a number of big cities converged in the

A workshop on 'Environmental Reporting and Disclosure' has deplored the tendency of industrial units to hold back information on the results of the clean technologies employed. The workshop, which

The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Union and Delhi governments on a petitioner's echo against increasing noise pollution across the country.