Polluting industries in Gujarat got a breather till at least July when the Supreme Court extended the stay on the Gujarat High Court's order imposing a 1 per cent "penalty" on their gross
China, one of 13 countries facing serious water shortages, will formulate a plan this year to scientifically develop underground water resources. Statistics show that only 290 billion out of China's
The Basel Action Network (BAN) and Greenpeace International denounced a US governmental report that supports the continued export of United States Navy and other US vessels to extremely hazardous
China formulated an ambitious plan to curb soil erosion on 50,000 sq.km. annually in each of the next 50 years. China has lost nearly three million ha. of cultivated land to soil erosion in recent
The UK government's attempt to ban the sale of beef on the bone suffered an embarrassing setback when a Scottish court threw out the UK's first prosecution under the new
President Bill Clinton is unlikely to secure the $6.3bn he has sought from Congress to fund a US package to lead a global fight against climate change, according to an administration document and US
The United Nations top environment official threatened to publish a blacklist of logging companies shown to be responsible for sparking forest fires in Indonesia and elsewhere in south-east Asia.
Trading in Packaging Recovery Notes - known as PRNs - has evolved as a means for UK companies to prove they have met mandatory new targets for the recycling of old glass, metal, paper and plastic
The Food Control Office at Man Kam To is Hong Kong's first line of defence against any pestilence brewing across the Chinese border. Each day, about 400 trucks come to the station's loading docks,
Independent of one another, research teams at Johns Hopkins University and Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland recently made the surprising discovery that medicines originally developed to
