China faces a "formidable task" to clean up its rivers and lakes and needs a fundamental change in attitudes to prioritize the environment over economic development at all cost, vice premier Wang Y

Different from last year's World Cup, an event which attracted widespread protests and was criticized by slow stadium construction, organizers of the 2016 Rio Olympics that start within year from n

Junior Water Prize on Tuesday night for inventing a filter through which toxic heavy metals from electronic waste can be removed from water.

In a major setback to the plan to curb Panchganga river pollution, the ministry of environment and forests has rejected the plan submitted for its approval earlier this year.

THE National Water Commission (NWC) will, in another two weeks, be starting clean-up work on wastewater systems in eight communities across Kingston, St Catherine, and Clarendon.

A SWISS trimaran on a round-the-world voyage aimed at raising awareness about plastic pollution in the oceans has docked at Shanghai, its only stop in China.

As head of the Department of Environmental Conservation, Joseph Martens oversaw the decision to ban hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in New York State.