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 rights experts, including a U.N. special rapporteur, are criticizing a U.N. scientific report dismissing concerns about the effects of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster on the Japanese public. Speaking Thursday at an event organized by U.S. and Japanese nongovernmental groups, U.N. special rapporteur on the right to health …
For months now, it has been hard to escape the continuing deluge of bad news from the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant. Even after the company that operates the plant admitted this summer that tons of contaminated groundwater was leaking into the Pacific Ocean every day, new accidents have added …
United Nation experts are encouraging the Japanese government to better communicate contamination goals with the public but are otherwise very positive about the progress that has been made in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident remediation efforts in Japan. The experts are from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) a U.N. …
KKNPP administration would establish an information centre shortly to dispelfears about nuclear reactors, radiations, etc. Besides executing community development programmes in the villages around Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project site, the KKNPP administration would establish an information centre shortly to dispel fears about nuclear reactor, radiation and other related issues, Site …
Mumbai : An October 3 urban development department (UDD) notice proposes to allow mobile tower antennaes three metres away from the boundary of school, college and hospital premises, in sharp contrast with the September 11 draft policy guidelines of the BMC that recommend a minimum 100-m distance. The Department of …
Contaminated water remains the greatest challenge at the Fukushima nuclear plant after the 2011 meltdown, the worst atomic disaster in a generation, the U.N.‘s nuclear watchdog said Tuesday. “The crippled reactors are in a stable condition generally,” International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Yukiya Amano told AFP while in the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ramakant Mishra & Ors Vs. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd., Chhindwara & Ors dated 23/10/2013 regarding location of the mobile phone towers. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/31-2013(CZ)(OA)_23Oct2013.pdf
Groundwater radiation levels at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have soared near a tank that leaked 300 tons of toxic water in August, struggling operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said Saturday. TEPCO said water samples collected from a well on Thursday contained 400,000 becquerels per liter of beta-ray emitting substances, …
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency met Japanese officials Monday as part of a mission to assess clean-up efforts at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. The U.N. atomic agency began the nine-day mission at the request of the Japanese government, as it did in 2011 following a powerful …
South Korea should reduce its reliance on nuclear power in view of public discontent with corruption in the industry and Japan's difficulty tackling the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, a group weighing up the problem said on Sunday. The Energy Ministry published the findings of a study group of 60 …
Japanese authorities may have underestimated by 20% the radiation doses workers got in the initial phase of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a Japanese newspaper reported on Saturday, citing a U.N. panel. A big earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 damaged the power station north of Tokyo, operated by …
Radiation levels in seawater just outside one of the damaged Fukushima reactors spiked this week to the highest level in two years, the operator of the crippled Japanese nuclear plant said on Thursday. Radiation levels on Wednesday, the day six workers were exposed to highly radioactive water, jumped 13 times …
Tokyo Electric Power Co. says it has found that an unspecified amount of water contaminated with a highly concentrated radioactive substance escaped from another storage tank at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and some may have reached the Pacific Ocean. Tepco said Wednesday it detected 200,000 becquerels per liter …
Researchers have found a high level of radioactivity in the soil, vegetables and drinking water extracted from permanent deposits of heavy minerals in areas around Cox’s Bazar. The level of radium, thorium and uranium found in the food chain in the area pose potential health risks to the surrounding inhabitants, …
Mumbai: Twenty-five professors and researchers mainly from the IITs working in the field of telecommunications have written an open letter to the Centre, stating that the country’s cellphone tower radiation norms are among the safest in the world and there is no reason to change them. But doctors and social …
Farmers from 30 villages surrounding the proposed 6,000 MW nuclear power plant at Mithivirdi, about 40 km from Bhavnagar, are gearing up for another round of agitation against the project. Members of Gujarat Anu Urja Mukti Andolan, a forum that is leading the protests, said farmers will take out a …
It is a known fact that the electromagnetic radiation emanating from mobile towers adversely affects the human body. The Department of Tele-communication (DoT) had formed a committee to study the harmful effects of such radiation on the residents of the city as well as the environment. Milind Deora, MP of …
Sri Lanka Minister of Technology Research and Atomic Energy Champika Ranawaka said that the Atomic Energy Act would be amended. Addressing the 57th session of the International Atomic Energy Agency held in Vienna, Austria, the Minister said that the 43 year old Act would be amended to meet the current …
Various events would be organized to mark World Ozone Preservation Day on Monday by the regional office of UP Pollution Control Board. Regional officer Mohd Sikandar said that a symposium would be organised at Saras Hall of Vikas Bhawan on 'preservation of ozone layer'. It would be attended by students, …
"Vital Ozone Graphics – resource kit for journalists" is a joint publication of UNEP DTIE OzonAction and GRID-Arendal. It features 30+ new graphics explaining physical, technical, economic and political aspects of the disconcerting process of ozone destruction in the atmosphere and the human action that has been taken to stop …
