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 …
after a lot of protests and pressure from activists and the civil society, the Anglo-Dutch multinational, Unilever, will permanently close its polluting thermometer manufacturing factory in the tourist town of Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu. The company has also agreed to clean up the mess 5.3 tonnes of highly toxic mercury waste …
The us navy has decided to stop its military training on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. "The military exercises on Vieques will come to an end within two years and a panel will be asked to find a suitable location for the training,' us president George W Bush said. …
------------------------------------------------KEYA ACHARYAthe lack of knowledge on hospital waste management stems right from India's ministerial level, but Karnataka's minister of health and family welfare, Malakka Reddy, is ready to listen. "Most of our incinerators are not working. We have no dumpsites or trained personnel. Please advise us,' was his request to …
Petroleum minister Ram Naik typifies everything that is wrong with our political system today - a system which formulates public policies not because of public good but because of political lobbies. In the last few days, newspapers have carried articles by Ram Naik praising the use of ethanol as a …
The incidence of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in Sweden has substantially increased since the mid-1980s. During the same period the climate has become milder and ticks have become more abundant. We investigated whether there is a link between the change in climate and the increase in incidence of TBE. Since the …
Report on clean fuels in response to the Hon’ble Supreme Court order dated March 26, 2001 & April 27,2001 (In the matter of W.P.(C) No.13029 of 1985; M.C. Mehta v/s UOI & others).
a nearly complete view of the world's air pollution has been recently assembled by the National Aeronautical Space Administration ( nasa ). The images reveal expansive clouds of carbon monoxide and other air pollutants over continents and oceans worldwide. The major sources of these pollutants include air pollution from forest …
A dozen notoriously toxic chemicals have been outlawed, or restricted around the world under a landmark United Nations treaty signed in Stockholm in May. It is a rare piece of good news for the global environment. The accord will ban, phase out or severely cut back a range of industrial …
More than 500,000 tonnes of obsolete pesticides are threatening the environment and the health of millions of people in almost all developing countries, warns the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Asia accounts for 200,000 tonnes of these pesticides, Africa for 100,000 tonnes and eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent …
the Union ministry of human resource development has directed all state governments to use only iodised salt in food given free of cost under their nutrition-related programmes. "The decision would ensure better health for under-privileged sections of the society,' says Vinay Agarwal, honorary joint secretary of the New Delhi-based Indian …
A former bar worker, who developed throat cancer while working at an Australian club, has been awarded a compensation of US $450,000. Marlene Sharp, 62, a non-smoker, who worked at the Port Kembla RSL Club from 1984 to 1995, sued her former employer saying that the club exposed her to …
At present in India more than thirty mines are in operation. It produces 2800 tones of asbestos per month (mainly chrysotile and tremolite) and in recent years substantial quantity (-70%) is imported from Canada. The quality of asbestos produced in India is very poor. The mining and milling and other …
children, in the us, exposed to lead at levels now deemed safe in the us scored substantially lower on intelligence tests, according to researchers who suggest that one in every 30 children in the us suffers harmful effects from the metal. Children with lead concentration of less than 10 microgrammes …
Children whose parents smoke are more likely to develop cavities, says a recent study. Doctors at the University of Rochester's Strong Children's Research Center, in the US, studied nearly 4,000 children with cavities and discovered a relationship between second-hand smoke and cavities. The children underwent dental exams and blood testing …
the former employees of the Hindustan Lever Limited's ( hll ) thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, are protesting against the company's "unrepentant and insensitive attitude' regarding hazardous working conditions and dangerous mercury waste management practises. The worker's association alleges that instead of conducting health checkups for its workers, the …
scientists at the us -based Scripps Research Institute have developed a screening method, similar to a home pregnancy test, that can detect mercury contamination in fish. Inventors of the device say that the method is fast and inexpensive. Mercury contamination in fish is a serious health concern, especially for children …
The Puerto Rican government recently passed a law that sets limits on the levels of noise to be permitted around the country's shorelines. The law is aimed at stopping the us navy's military exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. The islanders allege that the navy's activities are leading …
four Beethoven enthusiasts purchased a lock of the great composer's mane in December 1994. Testing the hair showed that he may have suffered from lead poisoning. Beethoven had demonstrated musical genius since his birth in 1770. He gave his first public performance by the age of eight, and by the …
