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 …
BEIJING: China moved to a halt panic buying of salt triggered by rumors that iodized salt could help guard against radiation poisoning. Radiation fears over Japan
A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late on Friday. Health and nuclear experts emphasize that radiation in the plume will be diluted …
The blasts at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan have raised fears about the adverse health effects of the fission products, iodine-131 and caesium-137 released from the reactors’ core. On March 17, the levels of radiation 30 km away from the plant rose from 80 to 170 microsievert (mSv) per …
The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, an arm of the United Nations in Vienna, forecast the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors. It shows the plumes churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday. The projection …
As Japan's Fukushima disaster unfolds, the EU is financing a controversial nuclear expansion programme in Ukraine to increase exports to energy-hungry consumers in western Europe. Tom Levitt reports.
Effects Of Poison Cloud Pose Threat To Generations The spectre of lethal radioactive fallout from the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima in Japan continued to haunt the country as ripples of panic spread to distant shores. Fifty workers and technicians quarantined inside the power station complex were fighting a deadly …
The current nuclear crisis in Japan is the most critical one after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Tracking it closely means a lot for India as it points out how a nuclear crisis is managed. It is important at a time when the world is getting obsessive with nuclear safety. …
Wireless Planning and Coordination Wing of Department of Telecommunications (DoT) issues siting clearance for installation of mobile towers for each and every site from the point of view of interference with other wireless users, aviation hazards and obstruction to any other existing microwave links. As per siting clearance issued by …
New Delhi: Are rising temperatures and increased ultraviolet radiation making more and more Indians suffer from serious eye diseases? A large scale first-of-itskind study being spearheaded by All India Institute of Medical Sciences will soon find out. Funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research, the study on the impact …
In the Konkan, thousands of families in the environmentallyrich and verdant Jaitapur area are waging a non-violent battle against the Department of Atomic Energy’s plan to construct the world’s biggest nuclear power complex in the region. A report of the struggle that has been met with repression and a critique …
KOLKATA, 14 FEB: The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) receives several complaints against radiations from mobile network towers, but it is unable to act on them as it has not been delegated any power to deal with electro-pollution. The WBPCB officials said that harmful effects of non-ionizing radiation from …
Cancer patients in need of radiation are being turned away from the Shillong Civil Hospital, the only place in the entire Meghalaya that offers radio-therapy, after a national regulatory board found both physicists working at the hospital wanting in necessary certification. Any medical physicist wishing to work as a radiologist …
Former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Anil Kakodkar, on Friday said the Jaitapur nuclear power project in Ratnagiri district posed no threat to marine or human life and to horticulture in the Konkan. He stressed that development and environment have to be looked at together and not in …
DoT To Issue Orders After Consulting Handset Makers New Delhi: Mobile companies will now have to list out the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) levels of different handsets to the buyers. The department of telecommunications is going to issue orders, after due consultations with mobile handset manufacturers, to prominently display the …
Calls For Ban On Unsafe Handsets New Delhi: Radiation from mobile phones and towers poses serious health risks, including loss of memory, lack of concentration, disturbance in the digestive system and sleep disturbances, according to an inter-ministerial committee formed by the ministry of communications and information technology to study the …
