Coal power plants kill 120,000 a year in India
INDIA’S breakneck pace of industrialisation is causing a public health crisis with 80-120,000 premature deaths and 20m new asthma cases a year due to air pollution from coal power plants, a Greenpeace report warns.

Climate crisis
THE world’s climate could be hijacked by a rogue country or wealthy individual firing small particles into the stratosphere, claims a warning that comes from a sober report from the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Pollution killing millions in Asia
AN explosion of car use has made fast-growing Asian cities the epicentre of global air pollution and become, along with obesity, the world's fastest growing cause of death according to a major study of global diseases.

Arctic ice levels to reach record low within days
LONDON, Aug 23: Arctic sea ice is set to reach its lowest ever recorded extent as early as this weekend, in “dramatic changes” signalling that man-made global warming is having a major impact on the polar region.

UK’s air pollution ‘worst’ in Europe
AIR pollution is prematurely killing 13,000 people a year in Britain compared with fewer than 2,000 deaths a year from road accidents, a major study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has

Half of UK homes facing water restrictions
LONDON: Half of all households in Britain could face water restrictions unless exceptionally heavy and prolonged rain falls by April, water companies and the environment agency have warned

2011 — another tumultuous year for ecology
LONDON: The year 2011 is another ecologically tumultuous year with greenhouse gases rise to record levels, Arctic sea ice nearly equalling 2007’s record melt, and temperatures the 11th highest ever recorded.

High cost of pollution
IN a first attempt to link financial costs to emissions from large power stations, refineries, waste plants and factories, the European Environment