The illegal trade in chemicals
<p>Chemicals provide important benefits to society and play a vital role in the global economy, but they also carry risks for the environment and human health, with greater risks to vulnerable social groups.
Toxic Wastes
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Bhopal bandh on Tuesday to support gas victims
The call for a Bhopal bandh on Tuesday in support of proper compensation for all victims of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal on Sunday received support from traders, transport owners associations,
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Yamuna chokes on toxins as puja samitis flout norms
New Delhi: As Durga idols slowly sank into the Yamuna, nostalgia hung heavy and so was an overbearing stench over the ghats. The muddy, smelly waters along the Kalindi Kunj ghat were choked as hundreds
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Villagers living near BHP ponds suffer from eye, skin diseases
About 90 per cent of people in Dodo Panhwar village in the vicinity of evaporation ponds of the BHP-Zamzama gas plant, 15 kilometres from here, suffer from skin, eye and abdominal diseases apparently because
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Untreated effluents still flow freely in Erode district
There appears to be no end in sight for the pollution problems created by the textile processing and tannery units for the beleaguered farming community in Erode district. The textile and leather processing
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Power plants heap miseries on residents of Malwa belt
The high mercury content in compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) notwithstanding, more awful for the residents in this part of Punjab is the increasing number of thermal plants. But in this “power surplus”
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Punjab pollution body adopts strict measures, quantum of effluents for treatment doubles
Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) Chairman K S Pannu in a press statement on Sunday claimed that following the stringent directions by the board that came with warnings of strict action in case of
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China activist defies officials in fight to save lake
Prominent environmental activist Wu Lihong plunges his hands into a thick layer of toxic green scum and brown foam floating on one of China’s biggest freshwater lakes. Despite a two-decade battle to
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Japan Discovers Plutonium Far From Crippled Reactor
Trace amounts of plutonium were found as far as 28 miles from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant, the first time that the dangerous element released from the accident was found outside of
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Mangrove habitats along Tuticorin coast to be regenerated
Mangrove habitats along the coastal line of Tuticorin will be regenerated. More attention will be on conservation of mangroves, according to Shekar Kumar Niraj, Conservator of Forests, Virudhunagar circle. Around 60 to 70 hectares of mangrove habitats would be restored in Tuticorin and Ramanathapuram districts. The forest officials would execute the exercise under mangrove regeneration scheme with Central Government's financial support.
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Move to check pollution post-immersion
KOLKATA, 29 SEPT: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will examine the pollution level of the Hooghly river after the immersion of the idols of the goddess Durga, member, mayor-in-council (parks and