The Supreme Court has once again upheld the Coastal Regulation Zone(CRZ) guidelines in order to protect the coastline of India - this time with respect to the tiny beach of Palolem in the

The Sabarmati, once the river of legends, has now been reduced to a stinking sewer spanned by seven bridges. The pollution in the river has choked fish. And on Tuesday, a mass of dead fish surfaced

The Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Mr. Suresh Prabhu, has accused the developed nations of failing to meet their commitment to transfer resources and technologies to the developing

With a view to containing the air and noise pollution associated with the Festival of Lights, the Lt. Governor of Delhi Mr. Vijai Kapoor, today ordered the implementation of the recommendations of a

As charges mount that poor planning and official neglect worsened the disastrous flooding in China this summer, the government has made the unusual admission that its land use mistakes are partly to

Nike Inc., the world's largest maker of athletic shoes, says it will purge its products of the widely used plastic substance polyvinyl chloride, which it called " a threat to humans, and the

The Ahmedabad Fire Brigade completed a massive day-long operation to remove dead fish from the Sabarmati even as water samples taken for examination allegedly revealed presence of acid. Firemen

The Taj Mahal may yet have to wait some more time for a pollution-free environment, as industry in the Taj trapezium is yet to switch over to the use of natural gas in place of conventional toxic

Industralised countries are contemplating imposing a moratorium on the export of hazardous ships-for-scrap to developing countries, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Environmentalists,

A landmark environmental protection protocol has been adopted banning mining in Antarctica for a minimum of 50 years and designating the entire continent and its dependent marine ecosystems as a