A well-attended public meeting was held on October 17 in the premises of Golai No 2 Prathamik, Vidyalaya to discuss about the possible effects in the event of establishment of the proposed carbon
'Climate meet begins amid divisions' went one of the headlines in this newspaper. And that is exactly how it ended. Where have we heard all this before? Rio? Kyoto? Johannesburg? The answer is all
With less than 12 hours left to conclude, there was no consensus between developed and developing nations at the eighth conference of Parties (COP-8). United Nations Framework Convention on climate
On the face of it, the Supreme Court's resolve to hold the state chief secretaries responsible for any future deaths caused by starvation in any state appears unfair. Can one government functionary -
Russia will discuss the Kyoto pact in parliament before it ratifies the agreement seeking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, the Press Trust of India. "We are moving towards
Calling him "one of the world's great environmental thinkers and innovators," the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has awarded to Dr. Ashok Khosla of India the 2002 Sasakawa Environment
The Pakistan cabinet, which met with President Pervez Musharraf in the chair, approved the Second Flood Protection Sector Project for immediate implementation at a revised cost of Rs 4.6 billion
The revised draft of the Delhi Declaration proposed by India, president of the UN climate change conference underway in New Delhi, leans towards the concerns of developing and least developed
Dow chemical, which had merged Union Carbide with itself, has refused to arrange for a removal of "lethal chemicals" from the erstwhile union Carbide's plant in Bhopal, as demanded by Greenpeace
When the Prime Minister Vajpayee rejected the argument that the developing countries must increase their commitments on cutting greenhouse emissions, he did not indeed mean shrinking responsibility.
The Eighth meeting of conference of Parties(COP-8) to he United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that will conclude in New Delhi has heard many speeches with little commitment on
About 1.68 lakh people die in different natural and manmade disasters in the Andhra Pradesh every year as the State is prone to cyclones, tropical storms and related hazards with 1,030 mile coastline
Environment protection agencies have expressed concern over the environmental pollution being caused by the Municipal Corporation's Solid Processing Plant. Alarmed over the increasing pollution of
The enforcement squads of the MCH are on the prowl in the twin cities of Andhra Pradesh. Citizens littering the main roads and streets will now have to pay fines, ranging from Rs 100 to Rs 25,000
NASDAQ-listed Infosys Technologies announced on Monday that it will set up its first disaster recovery centre in Mauritius. The centre will have a capacity to accomodate 1,500 people and will be
The rate at which forests are disappearing on the Himalayan range is so rapid that this flourishing mountain chain could be reduced to a stark denuded landscape by the first half of this century.much
Just a day to go before the climate meet ends, CoP 8 president T R Baalu today circulated the second draft of the Delhi Declaration. But going by the initial reactions in the corridors of Vigyan
The Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) has adopted an unprecedented fishery management plan that prohibits the use of pelagic longline gear in the waters off California, Oregon and Washington.
A German research centre has begun looking into medicine-enriched clothes that could treat ailments, a researchers said. Dirk Hoefer, senior researcher at Germany's Hohenstein Medical Research
The fifth Asian and Pacific Population conference will be convened in Bangkok between December 11 and 17 on the theme of "Population and Poverty in Asia and the Pacific". The fourth conference was
