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The acid ponds yellow acid fumes, black slush and putrid odour are overpowering across a stretch of about 5 km in the Wazirpur industrial area. The 'hell' is the contribution of nearly 1,000 steel

The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed the appeal of Orient Paper and Industries of Orissa and upheld the water cess imposed on it for taking water from Ib river in the Hirakud reservoir area. The

The newly constituted committee on environment clearance to port projects has given nod to the proposals of Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd, Ispat Industries and East India Petroleum Ltd for putting up

At least 3,000 dead, 21 million hectares of land under water, economic losses in excess of $20 billion. Those are the numbers that testify to the destruction wrought by ongoing floods in China. The

First it was the fires. Last year and this they destroyed great swathes of East Kalimantan forest land in Indonesia and blanketed much of Southeast Asia in smoke. Then the long-awaited rains finally

The controversial Sinar Mas project at Bhigwan, has been given a show-cause notice by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board to shut down "the manufacturing activities

India and Germany have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Bonn for increased cooperation in the field of environmental

Large quantities of hazardous asbestos continue to find its way into India. A notification was prepared to ban its import by the Union ministry for environment and forests but withheld later.

The Environment Agency will impose stricter regulations on soot emissions from factories in fiscal 1999, a move that will affect about 200,000 facilities, agency officials said over the weekend. The

A fifth flood crest is forming in the Yangtze River's upper reaches.Reports in Wuhan said that while people were mopping up in the aftermath of the fourth crest, heavy rainfall had created a new

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