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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

The 'guerrilla rainstorms'' that battered Poun in North Chungchong Province and Sangju in North Kyongsang Province Wednesday leaving at least 15 people dead or missing are refusing to yield.

Incessant rain and landslips have claimed at least 36 lives and caused extensive damage to property, roads and crops in Rudraprayag district of UP over the past 48

Warning that 25,000 species could die out before the new millennium, Greenpeace renewed its call on Thursday to protect ancient forests and depleted fish stocks and switch to cleaner energy. The

Twenty-three fishermen are feared drowned as two boats capsized in stormy seas in the Bay of Bengal off the south-eastern coast of Bangladesh even as heavy rains renewed fears of fresh flooding

Scores of panic-stricken peasants fleeing this village because of floods and erosion are haunted by a deeper fear, far worse than temporary loss of land. Much of the village is now under the flood

While many parts of America, including the Northeast, are suffering through dry weather verging on drought, the situation is particularly severe in Texas and Oklahoma. Just two years after drought

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