WHO, UNDP, UNEP and UNICEF have partnered to create a new compendium of 500 actions aimed at reducing death and diseases driven by environmental risk factors, the first such resource to unite this expertise from across the UN system. Environmental pollution and other environmental risks cause 24 per cent of …
The Noida Authority has decided to relocate over 300 mobile towers away from densely populated areas in the city, in a bid to reduce the alleged health risks of exposure to radiation from these towers. This was decided by top authority officials at a meeting on Wednesday. The move may …
In the wake of health risk posed by mobile phone towers, the Noida Authority has decided to relocate all such antennas from residential areas of the city. The authority will identify locations in isolated places — far from residential colonies — where they will be relocated. There are over 300 …
Amid concerns over radiation from cell phone towers, government on Friday called for research proposals to study the possible impact of electromagnetic frequency radiation on humans and living organisms. The call for proposals by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) comes in the wake of conflicting reports on the …
Bangalore: A team of professors from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is set to unveil Oorja, a smokeless gasified stove, for bigger markets. The large stove not only has the capacity to cook for 1,000 people at a time, but does so at almost half the cost incurred by …
They have intensified their cause to save the environment from effects of radioactivity. Indian government officials are set to meet French and other European investors over the week in Paris to discuss funding opportunities for the nuclear project. Sources said about 1,000 people gathered around the proposed nuclear site on …
The Supreme Court on Monday directed that all criminal cases against the agitators opposing the Kudankulam nuclear plant be withdrawn to restore normalcy in the area. Giving a series of directions, a Bench of Justices K. S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra said: “Endeavour should be made to withdraw all the …
Pune: City-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology officially launched its second ‘System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) - Pune’ for Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad on Wednesday. Other facilities such as ‘air quality and weather assessment and data on hitech-digital India’ (AWADHI) — a one stop-shop for metro air …
A court has rejected a demand that a city affected by the fallout of the country’s 2011 nuclear disaster evacuate its children. The unusual lawsuit was filed on behalf of the children by their parents and anti-nuclear activists in June 2011. The Sendai High Court handed down its ruling Thursday. …
India's disaster relief agency suffers from "critical gaps" in its preparedness for calamities, making it largely ineffective when responding to the numerous disasters the country faces such as floods and earthquakes, a government auditor's report has said. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) - set up in 2006 and chaired …
The Ombudsman for Local Self-Government Institutions has instructed the Thalassery municipality to obtain a scientific report from a competent authority pertaining to a complaint against mobile towers of three companies functioning in close vicinity to the Mubarak Higher Secondary School here. The petitioner, a resident of Saidar Palli Junction here, …
Some radioactive water may have leaked into the ground from a storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its operator said on Sunday, the latest in a series of troubles at the facility. The fresh leak comes a day after Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said up …
A second underground storage pool is leaking radioactive water at the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 power plant, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday. The first pool, No. 2, was found to have leaked 120 tons of highly radioactive water on Friday. The size of the leak at the second …
Radioactive water has apparently leaked from another underground storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Sunday. The utility, known as Tepco, said the volume of the latest leakage is believed to be small. On Saturday, it said as much as 120 tons …
New Delhi: The national green tribunal has set up a committee, headed by the secretary of the environment department, to look into the issues of the Mayapuri scrap market where a radioactive leak in April 2010 killed one person. The committee will comprise of one member from Delhi Development Authority, …
Claiming that radiation from most of telecom towers are within permissible limits, industry body COAI today said about 99 per cent of the Rs 700—crore penalty imposed on towers for violating norms is due to procedural issues such as delay in submission of reports. “Of the total penalty imposed, 99 …
Three Years After Tragedy, No Mechanism In Place To Check Radioactivity New Delhi: Thirty-fiveyear-old Deepak Jain, a scrap dealer at Mayapuri, doesn’t come to work regularly. Labourers at his shop, unlike other shops in one of the city’s biggest and busiest scrap markets, don’t have much work as there is …
Scientists from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) feel there is a great need to enhance per capita consumption of nuclear energy in India and the little use at present is mainly because of non-availability of this crucial energy. In an interaction with scientists and academicians of Himachal Pradesh University …
The Japanese utility that owns the tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant said Sunday it has detected a record 740,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in a fish caught close to the plant. That’s 7,400 times the government limit for safe human consumption. The bottom-dwelling fish called a greenling was found …
Western Ghats Task Force Chairperson Ananth Hegde Ashisara said on Thursday that radiation from the Kaiga nuclear plant in Uttara Kannada district was causing cancer among residents of nearby villages. He told a press conference that members of the Task Force had visited villages in a radius of 15 km …
Environmentalists and activists in Sri Lanka have commenced agitating against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Hundreds of activists of the environmentalist group Greens4change held a protest in front of the Indian High Commission, against the nuclear power plant. The environmentalists demanded India to …
