Oil lease sale blocked: In a preliminary ruling, a US federal court has recently blocked the US administration's plan to allow oil companies, access to the sensitive wetlands near the vast Teshekpuk

Neighbourly help: India is assisting Bhutan in 11 new projects under a US

But most nations are ill equipped to protect biodiversity havens

The US, it is widely believed, can go to great lengths to lay its hands on oil whether this means having to unleash a full fledged war on faraway Iraq, or throwing open a part of the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge back home. At least in the la

As vast amount of oil is spilt into the ocean, threatening sensitive marine and coastal biology, operation clean up has turned out to be a large industry

In a move that will see the world's deepest oils drilled off the East African coast, the Kenyan government has signed an exploration treaty with a uk- based company. Although the move is likely

Poor management of Nigeria's environment is costing the country around us $5 billion a year in ruined land and lost forests, an

at least 1,000 tonnes of fish were recently found dead near the shores

The Bush administration has passed a bill that permits oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

the Republicans in the us Senate will soon introduce a legislation that includes a provision to open some parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in northeastern Alaska, to oil and

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