The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
KARAK: The laboratory test has found the drinking water of Karak city and some parts of Takht-i-Nusrati tehsil to be unfit for human consumption. According to the report of laboratory test, water is injurious to human health due to the excessive presence of chemicals. The district health department had sent …
Studies on urban metabolism have provided important insights in the material and socio political issues associated with the flow. However, there is dearth of studies that reveal how infrastructure as a hybrid of social and material construct facilitates disease emergence. The paper brings together urban metabolism, political ecology and anthropological …
Ken Puzey can't forget the cries of a young Haitian girl at a medical clinic where he was volunteering last April. Puzey, 47, is an electrical engineer and founder of QuantaSpec in Burlington, Vt., which has conducted extensive research on federally funded projects to develop detection devices for IEDs and …
The report ‘A Concept Note on Geogenic Contamination of Ground Water In India with a Special note on Nitrate’ intends to serve as a national compilation of all relevant information on major geogenic contaminants reported in India. The report attempts to summarize various aspects of geogenic contamination of ground water …
Quantification of the disease burden caused by different risks informs prevention by providing an account of health loss different to that provided by a disease-by-disease analysis. No complete revision of global disease burden caused by risk factors has been done since a comparative risk assessment in 2000, and no previous …
The International Conference on Renewable Energy and Environmental Engineering shall focus on sustainable and renewable sources of Energy including Biomass, Solar energy, Wind energy, Tidal energy, Geo-thermal energy along with Environmental Engineering related topics like Water Pollution, Drinking Water Quality Control, Wastewater Treatment, Air Pollution and Air Quality Control, Land …
As summer peaks and rationing of water begins, Delhi colonies and slums are turning into regular battlefields. Are we going to let one more summer pass and hope the problem will go away? Or are we going to wake up before water wars take over our lives. We discuss with …
A report by Bureau of Indian Standards claims that 11 out of 11 samples taken by them from Delhi and tested in a lab have failed on all 19 parameters of the test. Testing of water samples was conducted to check organoleptic and physical parameters and know the chemical and …
