U.S. is asked to ban Beluga caviar imports
With the holidays at hand, the fanciest emporiums,restaurants and hotels around the United States and Europe are laying in fresh stocks of belugacaviar, briny silver-gray sturgeon eggs that burst on
With the holidays at hand, the fanciest emporiums,restaurants and hotels around the United States and Europe are laying in fresh stocks of belugacaviar, briny silver-gray sturgeon eggs that burst on
The International Tropical Timber Organization has failed to meet its primary goal of having all tropical timber products traded internationally by its member states originate from sustainably
Sealing of polluting indistrial units in the non-conforming areas of the Capital gained momentum on Tuesday as enforcement team continued with its operation for the second consecutive day.By the end
With a number of notification proposals of various national parks and sanctuaries in Madhya Pradesh, pending from the period ranging between 7 to 26 years, a total of 21,661 families would have to be
The European Union Environment Ministers, meeting for the first time since world climate talks collapsed in the Hague last month, were uncertain today that fresh talks could be held in Oslo later
European Union fisheries ministers appeared likely to agree the most sweeping cuts in fish catches for decades in a move that would mean heavy job losses and lost income for European fishing
The results of a year-long study at traffic junctions all over Mumbai has revealed that levels of carbon monoxide are considerably higher than the prescribed safe norms.
Responding to the emergency needs of the people affected by floods ravaging several parts of India, the Japenese Government has decided to contribute $500,000 to the Prime Minister's National Relief
The government of the newly-formed state, Chattisgarh, has stopped releasing water from the dams on river Mahanadi, seriously affecting power generation and irrigation in Orissa. The unprecedented
If there weren't already enough dissenting voices over the relocation issue, the DDA has also added to the chaos. Its officials now claim they only have a marginal role to play in the relocation
Female fetuses exposed to endocrine-disrupting chemicals are highly likely to develop endometriosis in later life, a member of a research team at Okayama University's department of medicine said
U.S. consumer and environmental groups, alarmed by Republican president-elect George W. Bush's pledge to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, urged the White House on Thursday to
toxic roots: Youth flee drought-affected Bargarh, leaving the elderly to fight it out. The villagers turned to the poisonous 'Kulihakanda' roots, a practice not new in times of distress in the state.
Despite the Noida Authority's brochures proclaiming the area to be "pollution free," the fact is that acid and untreated toxic effluents are freely flowing in Noida's drains, seriously threatening
Nucor Corp will pay nearly $100 million to settle a lawsuit that allaged the steelmaker spewed pollution into the air, water and soil, the US Environmental Protection Agency has
A report by an environment research group claims that doctors now regard obesity as a global health threat, saying it has raised the incidence of heart disease, strokes, breast cancer and colon
Tuberculosis is rampaging through China, claiming 250,000 lives a year. But despite the scale of the problem, there's little political will to do anything about
As many as 2500 owners of industrial units in Delhi who have to shift their units following the decision of the Supreme Court have already approached the Haryana Government to set up their factories
Artificial joints normally last 12 to 13 years, but regenerative cartilage could make them obsolete, according to Tetsuya Tateishi, a professor at the University of Tokyo. Major drugmaker Tanabe
Boston's $14 billion Big Dig,the most complex highwayconstruction project in American history, is scheduled to tear down the city's much-malignedexpressway and replace it with a high-tech underground