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Mitsubishi Corp.'s U.S. auto and electronic arms have entered into an unusual pact with environmental critics to curb corporate pollution and waste and otherwise lessen their environmental impact.

Egypt's first private sector power station is to be built by Intergen, a subsidiary of US company Bechtel. Intergen bid $300m for what will be the Egypt's first build- own- operate- transfer power

Efforts are on to establish a National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (NPPR) for the country, to address problems of industry and environment, it was stated recently at a conference on the subject.

The Chennai-based NGO, Coastal Action Network(CAN), has called upon political parties to come out with a clear policy to protect the country's coastline and the livelihood of coastal people.

Swirling bands of the eroded, layered rock, reminiscent of the edges of Alaskan ice sheets, and an array of light and dark mottled patterns blanket the frigid floor of Mars south pole where NASA's

The Environmental Protection Agency has discovered that hundreds of thousands of modern heavy duty diesel truck engines run cleanly during the agency's mandatory performance tests but give off much

Collaboration between India and the U.S. in the field of earth and atmospheric sciences entered a new phase today, with about 80 scientists from different Indian and American organisations coming

Chinese scientists claimed to have made a breakthrough in breeding the first transgenic goat in the country which could produce milk containing a human gene capable of providing therapeutic protein.

Fear of mad cow disease has sparked a national and worldwide recall of a kidney transplant medication. A total of 62,284 phials of Atgam, a sterile solution used to treat recipients of transplanted

A list of hazardous wastes that was covered under an earlier decision to ban the export of such wastes from developed to developing countries is likely to be revised and drawn up afresh by nearly 100