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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Crackers can trigger heart, lung problems
Medical experts have warned patients suffering from lung and heart diseases, blood pressure and diabetes to exercise caution as their condition might worsen during the festive of lights, Diwali. Firecrackers
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Plastic bags used to parcel food pose serious health risks
It is understood that most food or beverages sold in restaurants or stalls contain trace quantities of contaminants, but in the case of the piping hot cups of tea purchased from roadside vendors in the
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Fukushima radiation levels rise to new record high in drainage ditch
Tokyo Electric Power Co said sandbags were placed downstream to save radioactive substances from reaching the ocean, but rainwater may have caused the water in the ditch to overflow Japan's Tokyo Electric
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With a Plant’s Tainted Water Still Flowing, No End to Environmental Fears
For months now, it has been hard to escape the continuing deluge of bad news from the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant. Even after the company that operates the plant admitted this summer that
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Fukushima groundwater radiation spikes near tank
Groundwater radiation levels at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have soared near a tank that leaked 300 tons of toxic water in August, struggling operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said Saturday.
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Idol immersion pollutes Ganga
Even as Durga Puja brings with it happiness, joy and celebrations, it also causes great environmental concerns to the enlightened citizens of the city as immersion of hundreds of idols in the Ganga does
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IAEA to advise Japan on Fukushima clean-up
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency met Japanese officials Monday as part of a mission to assess clean-up efforts at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. The U.N. atomic agency
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Govt sleeps as toxic waste poisons water in Punjab
Notwithstanding claims of the Punjab Government and the state Pollution Control Board (PPCB) that emphasis is being laid on ensuring clean and green environment in the state, the practice of discharging
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Radiation levels in seawater near Fukushima reactor hit 2-year high
Radiation levels in seawater just outside one of the damaged Fukushima reactors spiked this week to the highest level in two years, the operator of the crippled Japanese nuclear plant said on Thursday.
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Effluents from Haryana polluting Punjab villages
After several pleas fail to move neighbouring state, PPCB to take it up with central board Unable to check Haryana’s industrial units from releasing their toxic waste into the Saraswati drain in Punjab, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has decided to strongly take up the matter with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).