About 1,000 forest fires were burning in Indonesia's East Kalimanthan province on Tuesday, heightening fears that South-East Asia could be choked by a haze disaster as bad as last year.
MERCK & Co said it won US Food and Drug Administration approval of its new asthma drug, Singulair.Singulair is a once-a-day pill for the treatment and prevention of
A young research scholar at Aligarh Muslim University has kicked up a storm among ornithologists with his claim that he has stumbled across the Rothschild parakeet, the world's rarest parrot,
The Netherlands Government has provided a subsidy of about Rs. 1 crore to a consortium of Dutch companies to study the feasibility of introducing autogas, an established alternative "green" fuel, on
Rajasthan's Solar Energy Enterprise Zone (SEEZ) in the Thar desert has got stuck as multinational giants, Amoco and Enron, are not meeting the "financial criteria", according to State Government
Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) has served a legal notice on Tuesday against the illgal trade in wild life at the Kataban area in the city. The notice has been served upon the
India has sought the help of the US and Japan to effectively implement the ban on trade in wild animal products, especially tiger bones and skins.The Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Prof.
In Japan,the Environment Agency has been forced to put a cap on its plans to reduce waste by promoting recyclable plastic bottles after laboratory tests cast doubt on the bottles' safety. The agency
When the Gujarat High Court quashed the environment ministry's order that had stopped Snaghi Industries from building a captive jetty at Kharo creek on the upper Gujarat coast, a serious
Japan will take the lead in a new project to coordinate the monitoring of acid rain in 10 Asian nations set to begin a two-year test phase in April, Environment Agency officials announced. The
