Ukraine is to launch a worldwide appeal for $358m to make safe the cracking "sarcophagus" shielding the Chernobyl reactor which blew up 12 years ago. Ukraine has already secured $400m in aid pledges
The river Teesta flowing through Lalmonirhat, Kurigram and Rangpur is drying up following continued fall in water level in this season hampering irrigation. Irrigation in all thanas of Lalmonhirhat
Low tides have again exposed a dangerously radioactive nuclear discharge pipe and new contamination of a public beach near Cherbourg. Greenpeace has accused the state-controlled plutonium company
The most ambitious environmental project to emerge from the Clinton administration has been its promise to restore the Everglades and Florida Bay to good health. The White House has worked hard to
Delhi roads will not have any new diesel taxis. The Delhi transport department has stopped registering new diesel taxis as part of a comprehensive transport policy to reduce pollution on city roads.
India will receive a fresh grant of about $1.13 million (about Rs 4.4 crore) from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for phasing out of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) under the provisions of
The Union ministry for non-conventional energy sources has engaged AEA Technology of Britain to study the feasibility of setting up two power projects that will use vegetable wastes as fuel. The
The West Bengal government is setting up a separate corporation for promotion and implementation of rural energy development work in the state. The first of its kind in the contry, the new
Researchrs have said they had created a possible new source for treating Parkinson's patients - the brain cells of cloned cattle. Brain cells from cattle fetuses were genetically engineered, then
