The absence of established ecological safeguards and systematic planning of urban and industrial growth in Gujarat may lead to a water crisis of unmanageable proportion in the near future, warns a

In an attempt to make the commerical capital pollution-free, the Sheriff of Mumbai, Mr. Kulwant Singh Kohli in association with some non-government organisations, transport associations and transport

Malaysia, hard hit by a water shortage in its capital, is now struggling to cope with fires breaking out in many parts of the country because of drought, officials and news report said on

Some 90 miners are feared dead in northern Tanzania following flash floods that caused pits to collapse, the state-owned Sunday News

Oxygen-guzzling organisms known as "red tide" have devastated Hong Kong fish stocks, killing two-thirds of the marine fish farm population and causing loses estimated at $9 million. The red tide,

Every year thousands of Indian women fall prey to easily preventible cancers through ignorance and neglect say specialists. "Eighty per cent of the women who seek treatment for oral, cervical or

Cochin Refineries Ltd (CRL) expects to get the final clearance for its proposed 522-mw power project by the end of the current year in which case the Rs 2,990-crore project will start generating

This is the story of people living on the banks of the Purna river basin in Vidarbha region, where every drop of ground water is as saline as the sea. About 348 villages spread through three

Study : Since Anurag Agrawal's discovery was published in the prestigious Science magazine in February, the 25-yr-old researcher has juggled scientific celebrity and the nuts and bolts of research

Dr Sudhakar Kar, a research officer (wildlife) with the Orissa Government , has been named the 1998 Man-of-the-year by the American Biographical Institute (ABI).