Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
Evidence from temperate regions have often suggested a link between lung cancer deaths and radon exposure. A tasteless, odourless gas about eight times heavier than air, radon seeps out of the earth all over the world, but levels in the air outdoors vary significantly from place to place; exposure to …
Rising concerns today about global warming owing to the build-up of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane etc) in the atmosphere, has drawn the world's attention to global biomass combustion. Whatever little research has been undertaken on combustion generated by house-hold stoves in developing countries paints a distinctly grim picture. Studies …
Have you been undergoing bouts of lethargy at work or at home lately? Do you feel your memory has started playing tricks with you? Are you getting constant headaches, nausea, eye-throat-nose irritation or breathing troubles? If your answer is 'yes', chances are that you may be suffering from what is …
OUT of all known sources that pose a cancer threat to humans, mobile phone is the latest. Nearly five million people in the UK could be at risk from developing cancer or asthma by using mobile phones. This has been concluded by scientists who carried out research in the US, …
A large proportion of China's population is physically and mentally impaired. This condition could be remedied with a simple solution. According to health ministry estimates, more than 10 million cases of mental retardation in China - including hundreds and thousands with the visible handicaps of cretinism - are a result …
Industrial advancement has no doubt improved the standard of living of human beings, but in the process the crucial environmental balance established by nature over a millenium has been inadvertantly disturbed. The concentration and distribution pattern of metals within the ecosystem is especially important. Metals are a unique class of …
According to medical and environmental scientists, deodorants are toxic and in some caseslethal. This view was established after a recent research which proved that, practicallyall deodorants are harmful to the health of users. Deodorants use chemicals that prevent odour by sealing the pores on the skin, making perspiration impossible. Too …
THIS one's for the believers in the grow- young pills. The drug that was once hailed as an anti-aging agent is now being discredited. Human growth hor- mone, the drug under question, created euphoria among health freaks when it was reported to reverse the aging process. A recent study, how- …
GET high on marijuana and remain low in cognition. Impairment in mental flexibility and abstraction are some of the long-term effects of the drug that otherwise gives what the addicts term as a pleasureable kick. Immensely popular with a section of the youth, marijuana has remained low on the priority …
A TINY speck of particle floating in the air could ultimately send you to the grave. That air pollution leads to respiratory and heart ailments speeding up death, is a well known fact. But a recent study by an environmental group has revealed alarming facts about the lethal powers of …
Arsenic has been found in groundwater in seven districts of West Bengal covering an area 37,493 km having about 34 million population. Our survey indicates that 560 villages are arsenic-affected and more than a million people are drinking arsenic contaminated water and more than 200,000 people are suffering from arsenic-related …
The Danish study on declining sperm counts worldwide has finally been challenged. It had to be. Two articles have just been published in the journal Fertility and Sterility which show that men in several us cities might have more sperm today than men 20 years ago. The alarm about sperm …
More than 20 years have passed since the Vietnam war ended, but agent orange continues to live on. Agent orange is a highly poisonous herbicide, used as a defoliant for crops and forest cover. Although it was used by the Americans for just two years - to defoliate the jungles …
THE villagers of Chinchugeria in West Bengal are threatened by silica and gypsum dust released by two different factories. Even as they reel under the shock of the recent loss of 20 lives to silicosis caused by silica dust from the stone-crushing unit Surendra Khanij, they are facing serious health …
Scientists warn that taking iron indiscriminately can be toxic for the body. In fact, it can make the heart, liver and pancreas more vulnerable to disease. Iron tablets may increase stamina in people who have iron- deficiency anemia, it won't give extra pep if there is no such complaint, warns …
Live rock concerts are the hardest on ears, reports Christian Meyer- Bisch, an ear specialist in the city of Nancy in France. Investigating hazards to hearing, from exposure to high noise at a live concert, Mayer- Bisch reports that people can develop symptoms of temporary hearing loss. These include ringing …
Sister chromatid exchange (SCE) frequencies were deter mined in peripheral lymphocytes from traffic policemen drawn from various busy traffic points of Madras metro in India. These policemen were under constant exposure to automobile exhaust pollution during their 8 h work schedule. Analysis of SCE frequencies revealed a sig nificantly greater …
The Singrauli region, which produces 10% of India's electric power, has experienced rapid industrialization and urbanization over the last 30 years. Along with this growth has come environmental degradation in terms of coal cycle and industrial pollution, displacement of populations, housing and occupational hazards, related health effects, and land degradation. …
Recently, the Environmental protection Agency (EPA) in the us accomplished one of its most well known public health campaigns of the past quarter century, when it officially ended the phase-out of lead from gasoline. According to a ruling issued by the EPA on January 29, automobile manufacturers in the us …
