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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Jairam meets activists over waste project
Minister of environment Jairam Ramesh met a group of protesters living in colonies located around the controversial Timarpur-Okhla waste to energy project, owned by Jindal Ecopolis, at Paryavaran Bhawan on Friday. They demanded that the minister take immediate steps to stop these waste to energy projects coming up in Okhla, Timarpur, Ghazipur and Narela-Bawana.
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Fruit poisoning hits Kochi
TRIPUNITHURA: Summer is at its peak and the demand for fruits at an all-time high. But many people are getting admitted to various hospitals in the city due to
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Centre bows to public pressure, wont dispose waste near Indore
The question of where to dispose the toxic waste lying at the defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal has come to haunt the government again. Yielding to public pressure, the government has finally decided not to dump the remaining 347 tonnes of waste at a disposal facility in Pithampur near Indore.
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GoM to ask CBI to proceed against Dow Chemicals
A day after a Delhi court accepted the CBI request seeking extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) chairman Warren Anderson
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MP govt asked to release compensation for Bhopal gas victims
A high-powered committee today asked the Madhya Pradesh government to release compensation to those victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy who are yet to receive any money from the government. The group of ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas disaster, chaired by home minister P Chidambaram, also gave its in-principle approval for construction of a memorial at the disaster site if no toxic materia
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Screen hardware from Japan
Auto Parts, Electronic Goods Vulnerable To Toxic Contamination Even as Japanese government officials and power supply company Tepco spokespersons yet again expressed optimism that the crisis in Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant was under control, Tokyo water supply officials declared that radioactivity had been detected in the city
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Better late than never? CBI to push for Anderson extradition
New Delhi: The CBI is ready with documents to seek extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson from the US for his trial in the Bhopal gas leak case which led to the death of thousands in 1984. CBI
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Like Bhopal, Fukushima may haunt future
Effects Of Poison Cloud Pose Threat To Generations The spectre of lethal radioactive fallout from the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima in Japan continued to haunt the country as ripples of panic spread to distant shores. Fifty workers and technicians quarantined inside the power station complex were fighting a deadly battle to cool the three functional reactors even as cooling pools w
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Cooum sediments' toxicity under study
CHENNAI: A study on the toxic nature of the sediments in the Cooum river is being conducted by the Chennai River Restoration Trust. The study is to take preventive measures on any possible impact on human health during dredging.
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National Highway polluted with toxicants: study
KARACHI, Feb 27: A research has found extremely high level of contamination with toxic metals especially that of mercury in the roadside soil along the National Highway. The alarming level of toxicants, particularly the high level of mercury at all selected sampling sites, poses grave threat to public health and requires serious immediate remedial efforts, according to the research. Karachi