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The toll in the current spell of floods in Bihar rose to 105, with 11 more deaths reported from flood hit

Though all the major rivers in Uttar Pradesh are reported to be receding, the overall flood situation continues to be grim.

Study : Large tracts of fertile and agricultural land in rural Delhi has been altered for industrial or commercial uses, reducing the green land to a waste land. On top of this, urbanisation has

Homes of 20 million Bangladeshi's have been swamped by monsoon floods that have lasted almost two months, twice as long as any other recorded. The waters have inundated more than half the country,

Colo Pikes Peak, a beacon to pioneers and gold seekers in the Old West, is being wrecked by the gravel road that 300,000 sightseers use every year to reach its 14,110-foot summit, according to

The British Government permitted a further six casks of radioactive waste to arrive at Barrow-in-Furness. The waste is destined for the controversial Thorp reprocessing plant at Sellafield and this

The Himachal Pradesh goverment has done well to extend the ban on the use of polythene bags to all its towns and hill stations, although it is doubtful if the order would be able to ride the Hill

The provincial governor in Thailand has given the city administration three days to find a new site to dispose of hundreds of tonnes of garbage, or face "drastic" action. Pravit Sihasopon yesterday

The serie of landslides in the western Himalayas in August were caused by seven decades's unplanned development activities on the world's youngest mountain system, said environmentalists. Mr

In what are believed to be the after-effects of the 1991 Uttarkashi earthquake, large cracks have developed along a valley formed by the Jalkur, a tributary of the Bhagirathi, which joins the main

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