Mexico's majestic Popocatepetl volcano erupted on Thursday,spewing out a massive gas cloud and setting off a series of tremors reaching up to 3.3 on the Richer scale, local media
The joint forest management approach and the social forestry programmes undertaken in West Bengal is set to be replicated in the rest of the country, according to Pranabes Sanyal, chief environment
Science and policy must come together to consider the 'pyrites-oxidation hypothesis' and the proper course of action to counter arsenic contaminaiton of groundwater, according to Peter Ravenscroft,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Quaker Oats Co. has agreed to pay a $1.85 million settlement to people who as children were fed radioactive cereal in the 1940s and 1950s as part of a
President Clinton paid little attention to environmental issues when he first came to office, moved to higher ground as time went on and now has a fairly rosy reputation among conservationists.
Taking a clue from a deadly poison found in the skin of a South American forg, researchers have discovered painkiller that seems to have all of the benefits of morphine, but none of the damaging side
Health workers in the city are sceptical over the success of the state government's ban on professional blood donors. Most non-government organisations and even the spokesperson of a government
In the absence of an effective control mechanism, the abundant and indiscriminate release of toxic elements by chemical, pharmaceutical, paint and certain other polluting industries in the twin
The Maharashtra government's Mumbai-Pune expressway project formally got underway. The express project aimed at decongesting the existing highway was delayed on account of stiff opposition by
To combat the growing pollution levels in all major rivers in the country, a national rivers conservation campaign was launched under the banner of the Indian Council of Enviro-Legal Action, noted
