THE Tokushima City Assembly in Japan turned down a request from local residents for a referendum on whether to replace a 250-year-old dam on the Yoshino River. Twenty-two of the 40 assembly members

An ambitious reforestation plan has been unveiled in China. All logging in non-commercial woodlands will be banned soon. State forestry bureau director Wang Zhibao said the plan would

People of Deukhuri valley in Nepal are putting pressure on the Village Development Chairman (VDQ to check salutation in Rapti river. local people are demanding Rs 300, 000 out of the Rs

THE Japanese government is planning a new large-scale dam on Japan's third- largest river, the Yoshino. A grassroots citizens' group, the Yoshino River Symposium of Tokushima City, has appealed for

The 5,462 km-long Yellow River, also known as 'China's sorrow', for its disastrous floods over the centuries, is drying up. The second largest river of the country, Hwang Ho has become the victim of