Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Exposure To Light At Night Lowers Levels Of Key Hormone: Study Washington: Late-night shift work may increase the risks of developing cancer, says a new study. According to Tulane University, New Orleans, researcher David Blask, late-night exposure to light may diminish levels of a natural cancer-fighting hormone. In the early …
Agriculture has fueled the eruption of human civilization. Efficiently raised, affordable crops and livestock feed our growing population, and hunger has largely been banished from the developed world as a result. Yet there are reasons to believe that we are beginning to lose control of our great agricultural machine. The …
The 32nd meeting of the standing committee on safety in coal mines was held on 17th March, 2009 in New Delhi under the Chairmanship of Shri Santosh Bagrodia, Hon
Lack of creche exposing them to risk, says NGO activist Sangeetha Neeraja | ENS Chennai, THE children of the brick kiln workers have this characteristic lost look with sun bleached hair, with faces tainted with running noses, unclothed and unattended, they play in sand and everywhere. February 21 was no …
This document on chemical disaster management contains detailed descriptive lectures, talks of holistic disaster management (DM) framework, integration of chemical risk to holisitc and multi-hazard risk management, site assessment, legal framework, district level DM planning, as well as capacity building. It also includes geological, meteorological, health and community issues in …
Washington: Astronauts who spend months in space tend to lose bone strength, making them increasingly vulnerable to fractures in later life. Universities of California (UC) Irvine and San Francisco evaluated 13 astronauts who spent four to six months on the International Space Station and found that, on average, their hipbone …
NEW DELHI: An angry Delhi High Court has summoned MCD's sanitation chief to appear before it and explain why the civic agency has not been able to extend night sweeping facility to the entire Capital despite repeated assurances to this effect given two years ago. Night sweeping is widely believed …
Beedi is prepared in unorganized sectors and the biddi binders are mostly perform the whole procedure at their home. Beedi is smoked, like the cigarette though there are a lot of differences. Beedi is wrapped by kendu leaves, tobacco is less roasted and lenght is shorter compared to cigarettes. The …
In order to evaluate and recommend reforms in the working conditions of labourers in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has set up an expert committee, headed by former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Justice S S Kang. The directions were issued by a Division Bench comprising …
Hyderabad Dec. 1: Next time a traffic cop fumes at you for violating a minor traffic rule, think twice before cursing him. He may possibly be experiencing high stress after being exposed to high levels of pollution every day. Not only do high levels of pollution increase irritability, it also …
In response to the health risks posed by asbestos exposure, some countries have imposed strict regulations and adopted bans, whereas other countries have intervened less and continue to use varying quantities of asbestos. This study was designed to assess, on a global scale, national experiences of recent mortality from pleural …
Inhalation of high levels of airborne inorganic arsenic is a recognized cause of respiratory cancer. Although multiple epidemiologic studies have demonstrated this association, there have been few analyses of the mathematical relationship between cumulative arsenic exposure and risk of respiratory cancer, and no assessment as to whether and how arsenic …
The researchers evaluated the relationship between diagnosed depression and pesticide exposure using information from private pesticide applicators enrolled in the Agricultural Health Study between 1993 and 1997 in Iowa and North Carolina.
Ambient air quality at five busy petrol pumps in Kolkata, India is monitored for mono-aromatic hydrocarbons and carbonyls. Among the measured volatile organic compounds, toluene and formaldehyde were the most abundant. Source apportionment using chemical mass balance identified exhaust from roadway and refueling as the major sources. Monitoring of the …
The Agricultural Health Study (AHS) is a prospective cohort study of licensed pesticide applicators from Iowa and North Carolina enrolled between 1993 and 1997. EPTC (S-ethyl-N,N-dipropylthiocarbamate) is a thiocarbamate herbicide used in every region of the United States. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports that EPTC is most likely not …
In this systematic review the researchers evaluated the evidence on the association between dioxin exposure and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in humans.
Will Rotterdam Convention put controls over the killer mineral? PRODUCERS of chrysotile asbestos, India, Russia and Canada, will again try to scuttle any controls over the mineral under the Rotterdam Convention that allows countries to monitor and control trade and use of hazardous chemicals. Conference of parties (CoP-4) to the …
