Signalling a dramatic shift in purchasing decisions, the third UK company in three months has announced that it will no longer buy clearcut rainforest products from British Columbia. Greenpeace
The costs of implementing the global warming treaty are likely to be small, the Clinton Administration's top economic adviser predicted, drawing bipartisan skepticism from a House subcommittee. Janet
The Environmenatal Protection Agency will announce plans to begin regulating large livestock farms much like factories and other waste producing industries, requiring permits and inspections in an
Libya and its British engineering partner dismissed as "fantasy" the suggestions of some Western security experts that a huge water pipeline project has secret military uses. Some Western security
John Prescott, the deputy prime minister threw another lifeline to the deep coal mine industry in Uk, by expanding the government's energy review to include the controls of open cast
A two year ban on exports of beef from the UK seems certain to be eased within months after European Veterinary experts gave unexpectedly strong support to a scheme certifying that herds are free of
Unearthed a couple of years ago, 30 historic sites that show buddhism flourished in north Bihar may be lost once again if measures to protect them from human encroachment are not taken up
A study released significantly underestimates the price tag for maintaining the safety of the nation's 95,000 dams, a Stanford professor Martin McCann suggests. In its 1998 report card on the
On March 14, 1998 the International Day of Action Against Dams and for Rivers, Water and Life will see demonstrations in downtown San Francisco to protest two destructive dams: the Ralco Dam in Chile
Imams of some Calcutta mosques filed a writ petition before the Division Bench of Mr Justice Bhagabati Prasad Banerjee and Mr Justice Ronojit Kumar Mitra of Calcutta High Court praying for