Chemical effluents released from factories that came up on the outskirts of Adilabad town into the tanks of the surrounding villages caused the death of 40 quintals of fish in the last two days. Villagers and fishermen of Chanda (T) village of Adilabad staged a protest on Wednesday along with dead fish brought in gunny bags alleging negligence on the part of officials concerned in taking action against managements of private factories that released harmful effluents.

Hundreds of Vietnamese villagers ransacked a proposed titanium mining site on December 28, which they fear will pollute the soil and the ground water. Over 300 protesters destroyed machinery and

UK to cull badgers to check TB The UK government is planning to cull badgers, the carriers of bovine tuberculosis (TB). Bovine TB is on the rise in the UK, causing 20,000 cattle to be slaughtered

THESE days China's environmental bureaucrats know how to talk the talk. They readily admit that pollution is poisoning the country's water resources, air and soil. They acknowledge that carbon emissions are soaring. If only, they lament, the government would give them the means to do something about it.