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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Oil spills frequent, yet Mumbai port all at sea on handling crisis: Experts
Viju B and Simit Bhagat | TNN Mumbai: Environmentalists have asked the government to find ways to curb the impact of oil spill that has been systemically destroying the beaches of Alibaug and Mumbai.
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This Ganpati, stress on idols without toxic dyes
ECO-FRIENDLY Viju B & Chittaranjan Tembhekar | TNN Mumbai: Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has asked Ganpati mandals to return to the festival
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Toxic wastes impact aquatic fauna in Ramsar site
Ghaziabad: The heavy discharge of industrial effluents has severely affected aquatic fauna at the Ramsar site, set up in River Ganga in 165 km stretch from Bijnore to Narora in Uttar Pradesh. Ramsar sites are a tag for critical water bodies across the globe.
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Tar balls harden, take toll on marine life off Goa
Margao/Panaji: While the clean-up along some of the worst tar-sullied beaches began, the sticky substance that has washed up ashore hardened into lumps on Thursday.
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Toying with high toxic metal with ease
KOLKATA, 1 SEPT: At a time when the state pollution control board has taken up a drive to phase out lead, a toxic-metal, innumerable lead-battery units in the city not only continue to cough out lead aerosols dust, but also ignore the safety of labourers working in these units. There are about 100 small or medium lead battery units operating on the stretch of APC Road from Manicktala Crossing t
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US pressures India to go easy on Dow
New Delhi: Ahead of the November visit of President Barack Obama, US has stepped up efforts to push India to drop its demand that Dow Chemicals pay Rs 1,500 crore compensation to victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. On Wednesday, Times Now, in an exclusive report, said US deputy NSA Michael Froman wrote to Planning Commission deputy chairmanMontek Singh Ahluwalia in an email that the
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Dont act tough with Dow,or else...
BIG BOSS: US DY NSA WARNS OF CHILL IN INVESTMENT Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI THE US appears to be piling pressure on the Manmohan Singh government for providing relief to Dow Chemicals.
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Carbide waste final hearing
Jabalpur, Aug 18: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has set October 26 as the date for final hearing after all parties submitted arguments on a public interest litigation for disposal of 350 tonnes toxic waste present for years in the now-closed Union Carbide factory at Bhopal. Justices Arun Mishra and Sushma Shrivastav, while hearing Bhopal-resident Alok Pratap Singh's plea yesterday, ruled that
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Bhopalis end dharna as 62 MPs sign letter to Prime Minister
Sixty four Members of Parliament from 20 political parties including, BJP, Congress, CPM, CPI, LJP, RSP, BSP and others have endorsed a letter urging the Prime Minister to set up a mechanisms to resolve all pending issues of long term rehabilitation and prosecuting the guilty corporations and individuals including Warren Anderson in Bhopal before December 2010.
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Poisoned beach
Effluents from an industrial estate destroy the coastal ecology and deprive local people of their livelihood at Tadgam in Gujarat. FAR from urban influences and pollutants, the beach at Tadgam in Valsad district in south Gujarat should be bustling with life.