Chinese weather specialists resorted to artificial rainmaking in the first week of May to save Beijing from choking in a dust storm that painted the city yellow for almost two weeks. Technicians
Three Thai community leaders presented a bowl of coal to Asian Development Bank president Haruhiko Kuroda during the bank's annual meeting in Hyderabad, between May 3-6, 2006. It was a symbolic
Argentina recently filed a case in the International Court of Justice against Uruguay to stop constructing pulp mills along the shared Uruguay river. Argentina fears these mills will cause
Rivers, estuaries and a national park, which is a world heritage site, in the West Papua province of Indonesia are being polluted by mining in the area, says the mining company's own risk-assessment
An industrial sugar-refining complex in the Cuban province of Matanzas has been blamed for underground build-up of methane gas and other environment violations. A government news daily reported
Ugandan forest authorities have said that forest encroachers in the country's Kiboga, Mityana and Mubende districts should vacate the government-owned Luwunga Forest Reserve by the middle of July.
Around 50 children and many adults of an isolated tribe in the Andaman and Nicobar islands have contracted measles in the past month, says a bbc report. That works out to around 20 per cent of the
Bolivian president Evo Morales's nationalisation of the country's natural gas has created a rift between Latin America's centre-left governments and the hard-left administrations of Bolivia,
More than 200 people are feared to have burnt to death in a pipeline explosion at Isanki Island in the Ilado area of Lagos recently, according to official reports. The pipeline belongs to the
