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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Passive smoking may make you deaf
London: Are you a passive smoker? Beware, you may be at increased risk of hearing loss, experts say. It's already been established that people who smoke may damage their hearing. Now, a study, involving over 3,000 US adults, suggested the same is true of passive smoking too.
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Toxic tag for arterial river
Jamshedpur, Nov.
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Smoke emitting from garbage fire at Assagao
The garbage containing plastic and rubber waste that has been dumped on Assagao Plateau by Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC) has been set on fire, emitting hazardous smoke for the last couple of days. The smoke is not only causing discomfort to the residents of Ganeshpuri, Housing Board and Ektanagar, but it is also hazardous for health of human beings. In a letter to the MMC chief officer, Shiv
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Toxic clues in river probe - JSPCB survey bares Subernarekha immersion hazards
Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) guidelines to protect Subernarekha from immersion hazards were once again blatantly ignored in the steel city. A maiden survey conducted by the JSPCB
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Maha govt puts toxic mines on tourist map
Mumbai: Unmindful of the ecological havoc being wreaked across the state, Maharashtra government has put its greenery-wrecking toxic mines on the tourist map. The Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) has selected a bauxite mine in Amboli, along with a waterfall and the coastline, as a tourist hotspot and is promoting the visit to the mine as a
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Toxic threat to the Danube
The highly toxic red sludge that has reached the famed river Danube after a reservoir holding industrial waste burst in Hungary is a major environmental disaster, exposing major weaknesses in the European Union's environment protection regime.
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Hungary scrambles to build new dam to plug toxic leak
Kolontar (Hungary): Workers raced to build an emergency dam in western Hungary on Sunday as cracks in a reservoir widened, threatening to unleash a second torrent of toxic sludge on the village of Kolontar and nearby rivers.
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Hungary toxic spill reaches Danube
Hungary: A toxic red sludge spill from an alumina plant in western Hungary reached the Danube river on Thursday and crews were trying to dilute it to protect the major European waterway. Tibor Dobson, a spokesman for Hungarian disaster crews, said there were no reports of fish death in the Raba and Mosoni-Danube rivers affected by the spill earlier, but all fish had died in the smaller Marc
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Toxic red sludge reaches the Danube
KOLONTAR (Hungary): The toxic red sludge that burst out of a Hungarian factory's reservoir reached the mighty Danube on Thursday after wreaking havoc on smaller rivers and creeks, said an emergency official. The European Union and environmental officials both fear an environmental catastrophe affecting half a dozen nations if the red sludge, a waste product of making aluminum, contaminates the