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 …
on the night of March 4, 35-year-old Chandramma of Anchetti village in Tamil Nadu’s (tn) Krishnagiri district died after a severe bout of vomiting. The next day, five more people with similar symptoms expired in Anchetti and Takkati, a neighbouring village. By March 8, the toll had risen to eight. …
"Our environment has been destroyed We seek answers to our questions What shall be the future Of the next generation?' (From a song by the Cordillera indigenous singing group) Singing doesn't come easy when the baton rests with the powerful and mighty. People of Cordillera, the Philippines are today seeking …
current methods of assessing short-term intake of pesticide residues by humans need to be modified. So concludes a study conducted by an international team of researchers. Their assertion is significant, as single exposure to some pesticide residues can be unsafe. A single high dose of organophosphates, for instance, can lead …
Last fortnight, Down To Earth reported on the 'endosulfan scam'. On how an "expert" group, set up by the government to review safety concerns related to the pesticide and the health impacts on people living in the shadow of 20 years of incessant aerial spraying, had given the matter short …
At Padpu, Padre village, Kasargod district, Kerala, there is a ritual every November to honour the snake god. Many in the area also believe that the ritual celebrates the origin of the Kodenkeri thodu (stream) in a patch of sacred forests near Padre, right beneath the cashew plantation-rich hills of …
At Down To Earth (DTE) we believe that truth withheld is truth denied. Fresh evidence suggests a web of lies and deceit was weaved to declare that the pesticide endosulfan is not responsible for the horrendous mutations and ailments that many in the villages of Kerala’s Kasaragod district are suffering …
the us Environmental Protection Agency (epa) vastly underestimates the cancer risk from exposure to volatile organic compounds (vocs), which are used for manufacturing many household and industrial products. Researchers from the us-based Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that residents of Baltimore face three-fold greater cancer risk than …
The multi-disciplinary study of histopathology and toxicology of Bhopal gas tragedy resolved several issues. First, the progression of severe pulmonary oedema to chronic fibrosis was confirmed experimentally, following a single exposure to MIC. Analysis of the residue in Tank 610 revealed over 21 chemicals. Apart from MIC and HCN, some …
x-rays, the largest human-made source of radiation exposure for the general population, are adding in hundreds of more cancer cases every year across the world, indicates a study published in The Lancet (Vol 363, No 9406, January 31, 2004). In the uk
What are the main findings of the psychosocial assessment of the Marathwada earthquake survivors? One out of every three persons suffers from psychological distress. 65 per cent have been impaired by functional limitations. Such disability reduces a victim's functionality by one-third. So each such patient has lost 12,000 working days …
even as India is trying to build a firewall to block out the bird flu virus, the first likely case of the deadly pathogen's human-to-human transmission has surfaced in Vietnam. Two siblings in Hanoi are suspected to have contracted the disease from their brother. All three have succumbed to the …
a recent study proffers yet another rationale for not consuming chicken. As per its findings, the foodstuff is not only laced with antibiotics, but is also full of carcinogenic arsenic. The arsenic contamination is higher than what was previously estimated
During the first study of its kind, researchers discovered that a chemical leaching out of bags storing donated blood poses acute health hazards for patients who need frequent transfusions. The findings have wide-reaching implications, as blood banks across the world store blood in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) bags, made with the …
vietnam is grappling with the severest ever attack of bird flu. The disease has killed five people so far, even as nine other influenza deaths are being examined. As a damage-control measure, Vietnam as well as some Southeast Asian countries have resorted to mass culling of poultry chickens. The disease …
two new cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (sars) have been reported in China, taking the total number of afflicted persons to three. Worse still, Chinese authorities are realising that all their plans to contain the disease may go awry. This is because hundreds of millions of people in the …
a child's height may not be entirely governed by his/her genes. The quality of water the child drinks is also a deciding factor. As per a study by researchers from the us-based Johns Hopkins University, children from the poor communities of Peru are nearly one centimetre shorter than kids having …
