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 Himachal Pradesh government will conduct a multi-faceted scientific study to find out the reason of dwindling birds in the region, said to be affected by radiation from mobile towers in residential areas. "The study would ascertain impact of radiation from mobile towers on human, animals and environment," Additional Chief …
Climate change assessment and decelerating food production trends in India: a paper presented by Dr. Krishna Kumar, IITM, Pune at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
This document contains the presentation by D. V. Borole, NIO Goa, on dynamics of trace gases at low level planetary boundary layer observed at Cabo de Rama, west coast of India, presented at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010. Atmospheric gases are considered to modulate the global …
This document contains the presentation on the role of cloud-aerosol interactions in climate change by G. Pandithurai, IITM, Pune at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010. Aerosol indirect effects (AIE) are generally referred to any aerosol induced modification of cloud microphysical properties (first AIE), cloud life time …
In its efforts to end the ongoing impasse over the controversial Uranium mining issue in Meghalaya, the State Government on Tuesday said it was open to an independent panel of experts to examine the entire gamut of the problem, particularly the hazards of radiation. This was decided at the first …
Ranchi, Feb. 17: Installation of cellphone towers without permission of proper authorities has been brought under the scanner of the Jharkhand High Court. Numerous mobile towers have been erected across the length and breadth of the city without adhering to the norms for personal gain by cellular companies has been …
Banker, housewife, engineer, pujari. They came from all walks of life, from across Maharashtra, and met up for the first time in a public meeting at Mumbai's Shivaji Park. They exchanged notes, bonded, and vowed to work together. Each of the 60 people gathered under the Mobile Tower Grievance Forum …
The November 2009 exposure of employees at the Kaiga nuclear power plant to tritiated water is not the first instance of high radiation exposures to workers. Over the years, many nuclear reactors and other facilities associated with the nuclear fuel cycle operated by the Department of Atomic Energy have had …
Putting to rest all speculations on immediate sealing of mobile phone towers in the capital and maintaining that the health hazards of cell towers have not been scientifically proved, the standing committee of the MCD on Tuesday gave one month's time to the cellular operators to adhere to the new …
Following the action taken by the Noida Authority against unauthorised cellphone towers in the area, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided that no such towers in the Capital will be sealed for the time being. The civic agency has also directed all operators who have installed unauthorised towers …
Giving nod to a liberalised policy for installation of mobile phone towers, the MCD on Monday said that those installed over roof tops of schools, hospitals and dispensaries in the city would be removed immediately, while those in areas like residential apartments and commercial places will continue to exist. The …
Mumbai: How to shield your building from the harmful affects of radiation? Ask Girish Kumar, the IIT Bombay professor, who has invented a shield that can be installed in concrete structures to block radiation. A developer has asked Kumar to install his radiation shield in a 300-m building near the …
Mansi Taneja / New Delhi February 08, 2010, 0:30 IST Mobile handset manufacturers, as well as importers in India, would soon have to get their handsets tested for radiation before any launch across the country, if the recommendations of Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC), the technical arm of the department of …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is finally through with its report on mobile towers, saying that they will be allowed only in the areas where people visit for a short time so that they may not be affected by radiations. According to the report, there are 700 illegal towers …
Bhopal: Telecom Companies and everyone associated with this sector know that cell tower radiation is day-by-day becoming a trouble but still all are overlooking this crisis. The only motivation behind overlooking is Money. These days we have seen at many places A building's roof has up to two or three …
Shastry V. Mallady MADURAI: Scientists involved in the setting up of a Rs.900-crore underground neutrino observatory in Theni district have kick-started the process of allaying the
The Delhi Urban Arts Commission (DUAC) has reportedly again rejected the New Delhi Municipal Council's proposal to allow mobile towers in the Lutyens zone. The body has said that such structures would affect the aesthetics and the high frequency towers can also have an impact on the health of the …
The recent incident involving a large number of workers at the Kaiga Atomic Power Station in Karnataka receiving substantial radiation doses due to drinking from a cooler contaminated with tritiated water (containing a radioactive isotope of hydrogen) is disturbing for a number of reasons. The nuclear establishment has tried to …
Ranchi, Jan. 10: Scientists of Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra, are getting ready to witness the solar eclipse that will occur on January 15, a day after Makar Sankranti. Preparations are on at the meteorological observatory of the prestigious institution, from where two senior scientists from the department of …
