the polluting crushing units in Goa's Saleli village are facing a legal grind. On October 29, 2007, the deputy collector of Bicholim ordered all 13 quarries and crushers in the village to stop

conventional leather production consumes high levels of energy and a number of chemicals. The process releases toxic substances. Scientists from Tamil Nadu have developed an enzyme-based

The us Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining (osm) has proposed new rules for large-scale mining operations that would give operators wider leeway to bury streams and mountain

Asset managers are trying to take environmental and social issues into consideration when selecting companies to invest in. Mutual fund managers were originally bound by law in the us and in Europe

>> On April 16, the Anti-vivisection League, an animal rights group in Italy, asked Pope Benedict to stop wearing fur as a sign of respect for the "sacredness of all living species'. The Pope

China has stopped fixing annual targets for saving energy and controlling pollution. Instead, from 2007 onwards, the country will have five-year targets. The move came after the country'

the Chhattisgarh government reiterated in February that industries not in compliance with emission norms could not be established in three industrial areas in Raipur, the state's capital, until

The Kerala Planning Board, for the first time, has taken up