Laboratory results of honey testing
It is a food fraud more nefarious and more sophisticated than what we found in our 2003 and 2006 investigations into soft drinks; more damaging to our health than perhaps anything that we have found till
CSE Study
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Cities turn into concrete ovens
Cities are creaking under their own weight. And heat. In Surat, for instance, parts of the city with dense concrete jungles swelter at temperatures 5 degrees higher than the city’s greener parts. This
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CSE Action Plan: environmental remediation in and around Union Carbide (UCIL), Bhopal
Three decades after it was shut down, the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal continues to be a real danger to the people of Bhopal and there is large-scale contamination in soil and water of the area where the factory is located. Read this action plan prepared by CSE for ridding the site of contamination in five years.
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Changing definitions of safe food
We need a food safety model based on societal objectives of nutrition, livelihood and safety. My local vegetable vendor sells ordinary lemons packed in plastic bags. It has got me thinking if this is
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Air pollution is now the fifth largest killer in India
<p>Air pollution is now the fifth largest killer in India, says the Global Burden of Disease report released by the scientists behind this study at a dialogue workshop organised by CSE, Indian Council
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Smog thickens, to clear from Thursday
New Delhi: Belying expectations, the smog intensified in the capital on Tuesday afternoon and Met officials say that it will now only start clearing from Thursday. Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
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India’s Minamata
<p><span id="itro1">Mercury, a highly toxic heavy metal, has contaminated the environment of Sonbhadra in Uttar Pradesh. This new lab study by Centre for Science and Environment found the metal in not
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Study finds high mercury levels in U.P. district residents
High levels of mercury have been detected in the environment and bodies of people in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh, according to a study conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).
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CSE finds frightening levels of mercury in Sonbhadra region
District houses thermal power plants, coal mines, chemical factory The Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh is precariously perched on the threshold of an environment disaster with a new study having found high levels of mercury in the environment as well as in the bodies of local residents. Sonbhadra, which is co-terminous to Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar, is the second largest district in the State after Lakhimpur Kheri.
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Red signal on green nods still holds up coal projects
New Delhi Environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan’s claim of awarding clearances to projects which will double coal production in the country may not hold true completely as many projects are awaiting environment and forest clearances from her ministry. Natajaran’s recent letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh opposing the setting up of a National Investment Board said that environmental clearances had been granted to 181 coal mines with a total capacity of 83 million tonnes per annum during the 11th Plan period up to August 2011 — doubling India’s current capacity. In addition, 113 coal mines had been granted permission to divert 26,000 hectares of forest land for industrial use.
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CSE report raises alarm over air pollution in Jaipur
Air pollution in Jaipur has reached a critical level as a result of growing number of vehicles and resultant congestion. The air quality is affected by rising levels of particulate and nitrogen oxide contamination. Moreover, rapidly growing number of vehicles may undo any gains the Pink City might have made. These are some of the findings of a new study-cum-citizens' survey conducted by the Centre for Science & Environment which were released at a city-level dialogue organised in association with the Jaipur Development Authority here. The survey found a belief among 88 per cent of Jaipur residents that the city's air pollution levels have worsened.