The illegal trade in chemicals
<p>Chemicals provide important benefits to society and play a vital role in the global economy, but they also carry risks for the environment and human health, with greater risks to vulnerable social groups.
Toxic Wastes
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Poisoned river
A RECENT study has established the presence of high concentration of toxic heavy metals in Chaliyar river in Kerala. The Kerala government has yet to implement the recommendations made by two
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Row over a dump site
CONSTRUCTION unions in Australia have vowed to go on a strike if a proposed waste dump for the obsolete Niddrie Quarry in Melbourne goes ahead. About a thousand locals attended a protest meeting in a
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Oceans despair
1998. The International Year of the Ocean. But the news from the deep is not good
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Dirty waters
an israeli ship Aribelwas recently intercepted while pumping toxic wastes into international waters off Haifa, Israel. The dumped material is very acidic and contains heavy metals such as zinc,
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Supergrass
Here is the latest on genetically modified plants with enough power to neutralise some of the most potent pollutants we know today
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Poisoned land
Though Spain celebrates for saving Donana national park, danger still brews, say experts
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Hard facts
spain will require more than us $100 million to clean up the toxic sludge that burst from a mine reservoir and flooded rivers and farms in the southern part of the country, informed
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Foul waters
several toxic chemicals in British rivers are going undetected as pollution inspectors are using ineffective monitoring techniques. A study initiated by the uk government has identified
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India or junkyard?
foreign countries may step up efforts to dump hazardous waste in India in the coming days, cautions Stirling Smith, an ex-official of the International Labour Organisation. He says countries such
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Toxic spill
southern Spain is facing an ecological disaster following a toxic spill that has led to the flow of contaminated water and acidic mud toward the sea, say environmentalists. Poisonous waste