I just read this fascinating story by Matt LaPlante in the Salt Lake Tribune. It’s about how one of the largest bases in Iraq burns all of its garbage and waste,...

Biomedical waste in India is a serious health and environmental hazard. Despite having a separate legislation for last ten years to handle this kind of waste, it is...

By Alok Verma With the end of 2008 there appears to be a genuine optimism that the year 2009 would be a witness to more cheers and less of threats, violence, fear,...

Sometimes strange ideas give brilliant solutions, like the ‘paper shampoo’, which is made of strips of a paper like material, impregnated with hair cleaner thus,...

On Saturday, the Obama campaign released a new ad criticizing John McCain’s support for turning southern Nevada’s Yucca Mountain into the nation’s...

BMC buying 42,000 litres of deo to kill the stink arising from Deonar and Mulund dumping grounds. Only the richest civic body in the country can afford this. Or perhaps...

The clock is ticking. On Wednesday, I am to shoot a segment for the Sust Enable film project in which I construct a draft box (alternative to a refrigerator), solar...

Hundreds of tons of waste still languish inside a tin-roofed warehouse in a corner of the old grounds of the Union Carbide pesticide factory here, nearly

Despite all of the emphasis over the past few years on the environment and saving Mother Earth, Canadians are wasting more than ever. According to a StatsCan study,...

Did you know that in Jaipur devotees bathe Lord Shiva’s idols and lingas with over 50 lakh litres of water everyday during the monsoon? Purushttom Gaur, has a very...

A new project financed by the government of Norway and the Global Environment Facility will have inmates at an African prison working towards purifying human waste and...