A large proportion of international investment now flowing into developing countries are supporting projects that are potentially damaging to the environment. According to the Worldwatch Institute,
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed panel of experts to find out the causes of cracks in the edifice and redesign the Rs. 13.6 billion Chashma Hydro-power project, it is learnt.Serious
Selangor has, for the first time, gone underground in itssearch for water. A company _ Pangkal Tulin Sdn Bhd _ has been appointed by the stategovernment to look ground water. It has started digging
The Pahang Government has ordered the Department ofEnvironment to investigate the hazy conditions here after winds blew smoke from peat fires to the outskirts of the town yesterday. Peat fires have
Europeans will have to give up the vast majority of packaged foods if they want to avoid ingredients derived from genetic modifications, the Beuc consumers umbrella organisation warned. As part of
Familiar images of children with distended stomachs and matchstick limbs fill the newspapers. The World Food Programme says 350,000 people are in imminent danger. Save the Children and World Vision
The UK Treasury insisted that it would agree to the earmarking of revenues from "green" taxes for environmental spending only on a "case by case basis". Dawn Primarolo, a Treasury minister, refused
Scientists at the US National Institutes of Health this week said 10 volunteers had been successfully immunised against E.Coli bacteria by eating raw potatoes. The experiment was the first human
Russian space officials are preparing the old, frail and forgetful Mir spacecraft for an assisted suicide. A top official at RKK Energia, the company that built Mir and oversees it, said that
Fifty per cent of the Valley's vehicles have failed the emission tests which were introduced two years ago to counter the capital's worsening level of pollution. Failing the test were some 80 per
