WHO, UNDP, UNEP and UNICEF have partnered to create a new compendium of 500 actions aimed at reducing death and diseases driven by environmental risk factors, the first such resource to unite this expertise
a study funded by the British department of health has found plutonium in the teeth of children throughout England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The study shows that the radioactive
Treating radioactive wastewater from ammunition plants
a scientific investigation by the Russian and Norwegian governments has found that radioactive contamination from the production of plutonium for the former Soviet Union's nuclear weapons was far
THERMAL power plants, fertiliser firms and other industries involved in largescale coal combustion could be a major source of radiological pollution. A team of researchers from the research and
Mobile phone industry accrues profits at the cost of public health
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster has not only affected human beings, but has even drastically changed the lives of worms. Scientists have recently discovered that worms exposed to excess radiation have started copulating instead of reproducing asexually
marine boom: An unprecedented census of marine life is reporting three new fish species a week on an average. In the first interim report of the census, an international team of scientists predicts
UN s latest malaria combatant
Auranium mining company operating in Arlit city in Niger has been accused of adopting inadequate safety measures, following findings that the radioactive metal was harming the local population.
