MAHARASHTRA Pollution Control Board recently released a collated report on air and noise pollution during the three days of Diwali celebrations (October 21, 23 and 24) this year. The noise level was
Following an emergency request from Liberian health authorities, the Chinese embassy in Liberia has contributed drugs to control an outbreak of the deadly lassa fever. The disease broke out in
VILLAGERS in southern Nigeria's southern Rivers state have vacated two of the four oil-pumping stations they had occupied in a dispute with oil companies operating in the country's southern delta
SCIENTISTS have discovered a new strain of the h5n1 avian flu virus that appears to have become resistant to current vaccines. The discovery by Y Guan of the University of Hong Kong and
WATER pollution in China is now threatening one of its oldest hydropower stations, Shilongba Power Plant, located in the western suburbs of Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan Province. The plant,
The number of oxygen-starved dead zones in the world's oceans has jumped by more than a third in just two years, notes a United Nations Environment Programme (unep) report. The report was recently
Saving red-legged frogs: The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) recently settled an agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (epa) to protect the endangered California red-legged
HONG KONG's deteriorating air quality is driving away foreign professionals and threatening international investment. A survey by the American Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong, has found that almost 40
