A levee protecting China's largest oil field gave way, prompting thousands of people to evacuate as floods spread to the country's northeast. More than 200,000 people are fighting flooding in Daqing,

Close at the heels of hurricane Pauline that destroyed parts of Mexico in October killing at least 230 people and rendering 3,00,000 homeless, another hurricane

A private firm hired to get rid of garbage generated in Chiang Mai's town municipality of Thailand has been accused by the Lampang governor of dumping trash in his province despite a ban on the

UN : As the two months old devastating flood started receding from most part of Bangladesh on Saturday the United Nations has warned that up to 20 million people will die of hunger and disease if

All major ports in the country may soon be issued guidelines for environmental safeguards in a bid to control marine pollution, a senior Central Pollution Control Board official has

The Centre is taking up a nationwide project for waste management near airports for avoiding bird hits, which has been identified as a major threat to aircraft. The Urban Development Ministry has

From garbage dumps to flower beds. Well, the concept appears farfetched but this is the motto adopted by Vatavaran, a non-governemnt organisation working for an eco-friendly environment in the city.

Ghaziabad is all set to become the first district in Uttar Pradesh to use zoning atlas for the siting of industries, based on environmental considerations. Zoning atlas will help classify land on the

Waters of the IB river have inundated over 30 villages around Jharsuguda and several other rivers in the state including the Subernarekha were flowing above their respective danger levels as

DA law prescribing how to recycle domestic electric appliances will be enacted in 2001 in Japan. For the time being, appliances are categorized as television sets, refrigerators, washing machines and