Urban industrial wastes contain organic matter such as leaves, vegetable wastes which, on a dry basis, have calorific values comparable to other biomass like wood. Scientists at the Combustion
political and military leaders from Cambodia and Vietnam are involved in large-scale illegal logging, according to an environmental group in Britain. If the government policies are not changed,
Petrol in Sweden will contain less sulphur than any in Europe by the year 2000. Swedish oil companies recently agreed to switch to petrol containing fewer than 50 parts sulphur per million (ppm).
Worldwide, traditional medicinal systems are in the process of being modernised. Besides health care and conservation of medicinal plants, the rights of the local communities that have preserved these systems for centuries are also at stake
several environmental organisations in the us are expressing different opinions over how to deal with the effect of increased population on the environment. Particularly, they have not
July 1987: Karnataka Power Corpora-tion Limited (kpcl) notifies a 2 x 210 mw coal based Thermal Power Station at Nandikur. August 1987: mef issues guidelines for citing of Thermal Power
Do not throw away those old telephone books and fruit juice packs, build your walls with them. Australia's national research centre, CSIRO, is backing a project to turn these "raw' ingredients into
