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As polluting asbestos units and illegal mining thrive amid lax laws, lakhs of workers become easy prey for dreaded diseases
As polluting asbestos units and illegal mining thrive amid lax laws, lakhs of workers become easy prey for dreaded diseases
NAFTA tribunal s ban on potential carcinogen leaves larger environmental issues unaddressed
Most candidates for the Bhopal North constituency are ready to overlook the fate of victims of the world's worst industrial disaster.
Virus attacks threaten the famed malbhog and virupakshi varieties of banana with extinction
Rapping the US on the knuckles for banning shrimp imports from developing countries was only a technical exercise by the WTO
While NGOs voice their concern at USA's interpretative version of the Biodiversity Convention, Germany has indirectly extended its support.
for all parents in the us who suspect that their children are using drugs, a government-approved kit will soon be at their disposal. The kit called "Dr Brown's Home Drug Testing System" has
most of Iraq's farms are in a bad state, says the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation ( fao ). The famous fertile fields of Mesopotamia's have been ruined due to
The hopes and aspirations of 1,200 adivasis were reduced to ashes on January 25 this year, when a fire devastated 121 ha of forest area in Motewadi village situated in the Pune district of
The residents of an unauthorised colony in Delhi battle all odds for a cleaner life
Current conservation policies have done more harm than good
ON NOVEMBER 7, residents of Vivekanandapally in Calcutta staved off yet another attempt by a group of real estate developers, which has been trying to fill up a shallow 0.134 hectare lake in the area
In a bid to keep Shimla and its surroundings free from ecologically damaging activities, the Shimla High Court has come down heavily on stone quarry owners and stone crushers in and around the town.
• A new system of trunk road planning to avoid planning delays • New power to local authorities to manage traffic demand in their areas and reduce vehicular pollution •
Sikkim s Pawan Kumar Chamling is felicitated for being the greenest chief minister of India
The MEF draws up an ambitious plan for the management of municipal solid wastes
<font class="UCASE">the</font> chairperson of a government committee mandated to look into Kerala's endosulfan tragedy suppressed all dissenting voices within the committee to give a clean chit to the pesticide.
THE rootless post-modernist, lost in exhausting productivity and mindless consumerism, has been forced to wake up to the severe erosion of the environment. But despite the host of developmental
At a time when the threat of war looms large over Iraq, here s more ammunition for peaceniks to confront warmongers with. The United Nations Environment Programme UNEP recently released the findings of assessments conducted in the violence wracked Occup
North eastern NGOs are caught in the crossfire between militants and intelligence agencies