Check wastage
Put a price to water
Put a price to water
MEDIEVAL afflictions were not restricted to Beed, Surat or other parts of India hit by the plague last fortnight. They showed up in the blinkered reception of the news in several supposedly
The Supreme Court asks the Delhi government to maintain a minimum flow of water in the Yamuna
India's urban environment is a ghastly cocktail of prosperity, poverty and pollution. A study of eight towns moving towards the precipice of disaster
fine-particle pollution from power plants, especially those using coal, is responsible for the death of 30,000 people every year in the us . This was stated in a report entitled Death,
The Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, which devastated the city, has changed hands. The plant that made methylisocyanate (mic) infamous throughout the world has been taken over from the us-based
As per the auto fuel policy released this year, vehicles running in cities must meet Euro iii emission norms, apparently very stringent, by April 1, 2005. Apparently , because vehicle manufacturers say their products are already up to the Euro iii mark
Because of its political importance in the British empire, Calcutta was one of the first cities to regulate smoke emissions. But legislation failed to keep up with technology and today, the city is one of the most polluted in the world.
Tracking the snow leopard: The life and habits of the elusive snow leopard will no longer be a mystery. For the first time, a team has fitted a snow leopard with a global positioning system (GPS)
Although setting up of the EPA did result in policies to control pollution, political interference has blunted its effectiveness
JUSTICE BHAGWATI PRASAD BANERJEE of the green bench of the Calcutta high court stirred more than a hornet's nest in April 1996, when he passed an order banning the use of loudspeakers in Calcutta. In a city where political meetings are a daily affair, suc
With growing pollution and staggering waste levels, the world's largest continent is fast emerging as the most lucrative hunting ground for firms hawking clean up technologies
The thousands of corpses of the brutal gun and machete civil war in Rwanda have been dumped into the second largest fresh water lake in the world.
Tanzanian farmers need no longer flee to the cities in search of greener pastures. The spectre of mass migration from rural areas has been haunting the nation ever since it was hit by a severe crop
The <font class='UCASE'>un</font> hopes to take a lead in environmental management. Whether it lives up to the challenge or not, is still to be seen
Exposure to diesel particles can lead to serious ilnesses. Still, the Indian government encourages its use by subsidising it
canada's greenhouse gas emissions, in 1998, were 19 per cent more than the target set under the Kyoto Protocol, the country's environment ministry has revealed. The ministry says that
The National Auto Fuel Policy, unveiled by Union minister for petroleum and natural gas Ram Naik on October 6, is a softer version of a soft report. Based on the recommendations of the expert committee on auto fuel policy, it lays down a weak roadmap for
<div style="width:100%;"> Kolkata Municipal Corporation has an area of 185 km2 and the Kolkata Metropolitan Area is spread over 1,750 km2 with 15 million people. Pollution levels in Kolkata are high
To "save' the city of Beijing, Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji has ordered the killing of at least 300,000 cashmere goats in Inner Mongolia for "destroying the forests and causing degradation'.