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 …
Human burning of fossil fuels and biofuels for energy use affects global climate change through increasing carbon dioxide (CO2), but also a host of other short-lived non-CO2 effects that are complex and involve impacts that are both warming and cooling. The most important are ozone, a warming greenhouse gas, and …
Volcanic eruptions release a large amount of sulphur dioxide. This is oxidized to sulphate and can then form sulphate aerosol, which can affect the Earth's radiation balance. Here, past volcanic eruptions and atmospheric conditions are investigated by using sulphur and triple oxygen isotope measurements of atmospheric sulphate preserved in the …
New Delhi: Radiotherapy for breast cancer patients could soon be a single dose 30-minute affair, instead of the tedious present-day regimen lasting over six weeks. In a major breakthrough, a team of British doctors headed by University College London
Mayors and local government leaders from more than 100 cities of India and seven countries of South Asia gathered in the Capital on Tuesday to attend the launch of a global campaign of
New Delhi: A division bench of Delhi high court on Friday stayed the formation of the panel to study health risks caused by mobile phone towers. Hearing an appeal filed by the MCD against the single bench order of May 31, a division bench of chief justice Dipak Misra and …
THE recent radiological accident in New Delhi's Mayapuri scrap metal market has raised many questions about the level of monitoring of hazardous waste in India. That India is fast becoming a waste dump in a globalised economy makes these questions even more relevant. Has the government put in place enough …
The Mayapuri cobalt-60 episode shows that the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board needs to be replaced with a truly independent, well-staffed, competent body. IN India's age of philistinism, in which the
NEW DELHI: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on Tuesday set up a group of experts to verify claims of higher than prescribed levels of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) in the Capital. The move comes a day after the Delhi High Court directed the Delhi Government to constitute a …
RRN Prasad Milind Deora, Lok Sabha MP, has recently brought into the public domain a major health issue relating to electromagnetic radiation from cell phones and base stations mounted on telecom towers. The trigger for his taking this important public health issue with the department of telecom (DoT) was the …
HC Extends Stay, Tells Govt To Set Up Panel On Health Risk New Delhi: Noting that cellphones were no more a luxury but a part of everyday existence, the Delhi high court on Monday extended the interim stay on sealing of mobile towers till mid-September. It also directed the government …
Noting that the issue of public health and safety was more important than monetary considerations, the Delhi high court on Monday directed the Union government to constitute a panel of technical and medical experts to ascertain the health hazards, if any, from mobile phone towers and submit a report by …
Granting cellular operators relief till September 15 from paying the increased licence fee for mobile towers, the Delhi High Court on Monday called for the constitution of an expert committee to study the impact of these towers and antennae on human health. As an interim directive, the court has asked …
Petition seeks temporary sealing of the Mayapuri scrap market Court urged to issue directions for installation of radiation scanners NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notices to the Union Government and others on a public interest litigation by an individual seeking temporary sealing of the Mayapuri scrap …
india’s atomic energy regulator too seems to be at fault for the radiation mishap in West Delhi in early April that killed one person. The Delhi University took all the blame after police tracked the source of radiation to the university chemistry laboratory that had sold a gamma irradiator containing …
Ajay Kanth KOCHI: The radiation leak at a scrap shop in West Delhi industrial area recently has raised serious concern among experts on the safety of workers in scrap-breaking units in Kerala. Though a lot of scrap units are functioning in the state, the authorities are totally unaware of the …
Divya Gandhi BANGALORE: Earlier this month, alarm bells sounded in the United States at a phenomenon considered as dire as climate change: the disappearing honeybee. If the trend continues, it may spell the doom for agriculture
Saint-Etienne (France) French nuclear safety authorities says six people have been contaminated by a leak of radioactive cobalt in a foundry. The Institute for Radioactivity Protection and Nuclear Safety says the six were brought to a hospital unit at a nuclear plant near the foundry in Feurs in France. The …
