To prepare blueprint for creek’s restoration within next three months CHENNAI: With the ecologically-sensitive Ennore Creek remaining in a state of neglect due to continuing industrial pollution, National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a new committee with a mandate to prepare a blueprint for restoration of the creek within the …
Germany, UK, France To Open Air Space For Limited Flights Paris: As airline losses from the volcanic ash cloud spiraled over $1 billion on Monday, airlines started demanding EU compensation and the aviation industry sharply criticized European governments for not using scientific measures to evaluate the ash and open up …
As the Icelandic volcano continues to spew ash across much of Europe, questions are circulating about whether the fine airborne particles of rock and glass pose health or environmental risks. The consensus of The World Health Organization and British health groups is that, so far, the potential risks are minimal …
Several factors lead to the collapse in December of earthen dikes supporting a coal ash landfill at a Tennessee power plant, an engineering consultant said. The consultant, Bill Walton, an engineer with Aecom USA Inc., said his firm
The public health of around 34 villages around the Barapukuria 250MW Power Plant is becoming hazardous as the plant chimneys are continuously emitting fly ash which is full of coal particles due to some technical glitches. Sources said the plant started emitting fly ash about three to four months ago, …
United Nations figures show close to 10 million people die a year in India, where 85 percent of the billion-plus population are Hindus who practice cremation, mostly using wooden pyres that release huge amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). That means felling of an estimated 50 million trees, half a million …
A coal ash spill in eastern Tennessee that experts were already calling the largest environmental disaster of its kind in US is more than three times as large as initially estimated, according to an updated survey by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Officials at the authority initially said that about 1.7 …
As southern Sudan emerges from decades of civil war, the country is now experiencing a deluge of forgotten diseases that were believed to have been under control. who blames it on the country's health system, which has broken down during the war. The diseases that are resurfacing now include leprosy, …
