On January 17, students will demonstrate a variety of solutions for environmental improvement at community level at the first ever public hearing on deteriorating environmental conditions in the
Taiwan's Atomic Energy Council said that Taiwan Power Co. had not dropped a plan to ship nuclear waste to North Korea, but it was delayed by a review to certify the secretive Stalinist state's
Hopes have risen in Hong Kong that the avian flu outbreak may be on the wane, with no new cases reported for six days following the mass slaughter of 1.5 million chickens and other
The foundations of the concrete sarcophagus covering the Chernobyl nuclear plant's fourth reactor are weakening but are not close to collapse, Ukranian officials
Brown and Williamson Tobacco, a US subsidiary of Britain's BAT Industries, has defended its role in an alleged conspiracy to produce high-nicotine tobacco, saying it never intended to use the tobacco
UP to now, no transgenic crops have been planted commercially in the European Union. There are many trial plots, but nothing grown in Europe has yet reached the shops. Nor there are many imports. The
Scottish salmon farmers have launched an initiative to reduce the damage caused by sea lice, which infest salmon in the floating cages where they are reared and reduce output. The farmers are being
The Maharashtra Government is helping a private sector plan to develop a project for the elite in an environmentally sensitive region, despite complaints of unauthorised construction and irregular
The 24-billion-dollar Three Gorges Project on the Yangtze river in China has aroused worldwide attention. When completed, it will have the largest hydroelectric power station in the
The Canadian government has apologized to the Indian, Inuit and other aboriginal peoples of Canada for decades of mistreatment, offering an emotional atonement for policies that sought to stamp out
