The unveiling comes just months after China's decision to stop collecting and processing plastic waste escalated alarm over environmental damage to the world's oceans.
The plan drew immediate criticism from environmentalists who said it lacked a clear framework to tackle toxicity levels that have led to millions of deaths.
Facing a loss of land rights under the contentious Vacant Land Law, the park will use modern methods and customary laws in a bid to retain ownership and protection of...
India’s federal government continues to urge people with respiratory and cardiac problems to stay indoors and away from polluted areas.
The Mon State natural resources ministry has warned local antimony plants to control their fumes or risk action taken against them.
Elephant-removal team called in after two groups of hungry pachyderms enter village.
Residents of Nyaungshwe Township who had land confiscated by the previous government in 2012 now face businesses’ application for official ownership.
Locals in nearby villages raise concerns as riverbank erosion forces houses and a high school in two villages to move.
As Thailand’s rainy season peaks, the government is taking steps to avoid a repeat of devastating floods in 2011 says Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha
A home for hundreds of animal species, the national park in Rangoon’s Mingaladon Township marked its twenty-seventh year on Friday.
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