EU renewable energy funding is set to get a surprise boost on Monday, it has emerged, when EU energy ministers are expected to agree a budget of up to Ecu30m for the Altener II renewable energy
The West Bengal government is protesting a move by the Union environment ministry to change the east Calcutta wetland's status to that of a lake. In a report available to the state environment
Germany-based chemical major BASF has reduced emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide by 95% at its Ludwigshafen site, according to the firm's 1997 corporate environmental report. The report
The Netherlands is set to exempt "green electricity" from an environmental tax following approval from the European Commission which passed the plan under EU rules on state aid. The tax cut will
Southeast Asia is witnessing a startling upsurge in dengue cases this year. More than 21,000 people in Indonesia are reported to be infected, and 490 have died so far. And there is no treatment for
A strip-mining operation is under way in Blair, West Virginia, in which mountain tops are blasted off and the rock and earth are dumped into the valleys. Mountaintop removal is hardly new to the
Haryana is currently faced with the twin problems of rising and falling water-table . This has already led to a considerable area in the state going waste.
Thousands of rescue workers and soldiers on Thursday scoured villages in southern Italy in a desperate search for some 70 people still missing after mudslides turned into rivers of death, killing at
The experts committee set up by the West Bengal government has identified 46 schools and 30 libraries and museums in Calcutta to be declared heritage buildings. The heritage committee has also
