A new report says that pollution from US power plants is responsible for the early deaths of more than 30,000 Americans annually, and that simply following EPA policy could cut this figure by over
As 250 million gallon spill approaches the Ohio River, officials say they must "wait and see" the amount of damage caused.At the time of publishing, a huge spume of pollution in the Big Sandy River,
A report at a conference examining the effect of free trade on North America's environment has revealed the bloc as "a constraint on the ability of countries to adopt higher standards to protect
The death toll in Uganda from an Ebola outbreak climbed on Tuesday, with 60 people reported dead out of 165 suspected cases, Ugandan officials said.The Health Ministry said five new cases of Ebola
Nearly a decade after more than 100,000 other U.S. soldiers returned from the Middle East, a debate still rages over whether Gulf War Syndrome exists and what the government should do about it. Texas
For the first time in more than a week, the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in northern Uganda has not increased during a 24-hour period.Dr. Sam Okware, who chairs a task force set up to deal with
Tobacco-related diseases are likely to become the biggest killer in Africa in the next 20 years, an official with the U.S.-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.Projections
Twelve young sandhill cranesand an equal number of biologists and wildlife specialists are on their way to completing thelongest human-led bird migration yet, over 1,250 miles from Wisconsin to
As a part of the Integrated Agricultural Extenstion Programme of local DAE a Crop museum has been set up on acre of land of a farmer belonging to Joyrampur of Pairabond under Mithapukar upazila
One hundred thousand trees were planted nationwide in just one minute, establishing a world record. Thousands of Malaysians, including Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir, simultaneously planted
A new report shows that only four European countries are increasing recycling and composting of municipal waste faster than levels are growing. In a survey of 10 European countries, Recycling
A call for strengthened international partnership and co-ordination to address desertification and drought in Africa will form the core message of the fourth African Regional Conference for the
A US charity has initiated a tree-building programme to combat the considerable risk of landslides to the capital, Sarajevo. The plan is to plant 300,000 slope-stabilising trees and over 3,000 street
The twin effects of erosion of the Ganga and environmental imbalances caused by the Farakka barrage are endangering the international boundary with Bangladesh in West Bengal with a permanent loss of
British Prime Minister Tony Blair will make a rare speech on the environment today, calling on green activists to join business and government in forging policy. Blair has made few forays into the
Nature's Beckon, an environmental activist group, has taken up a project to save the rainforest of the Brahmaputra Valley, according to a press release
The Gujarat Pollution Control Board's figure's show all is well with Ahmedabad's air. No one in the city believes it as they have no reason to do so. No, the board is not fudging the figures, it has
When it comes to understanding how plague spreads, researchers in Britain say, it's not about humans, it's about rats.Scientists at Cambridge University have developed a new model for the dynamics of
The most comprehensive report on UK diffuse pollution hopes to stimulate action by the government and environmental experts on an increasing and well-known, but largely ignored, problem. The
More potent drugs and an easier-to-complete treatment for tuberculosis, a major killer in poor countries, are expected to be out by 2010. This was the target set by an international alliance of
