Children

Living in Hell

Residents of Peera Garhi, a village in outer Delhi, are having to deal with a nightmare. A highly polluting plastics industry is to blame

Publication Date:

14/02/1999

Author(s): Kazimuddin Ahmed

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Health Effects, Plastics, Children, Industry, Delhi

India

Childhood cancers

There has been an alarming rise in cases of childhood cancers in the last two decades. According to reports in Environmental Health Perspectives and The Ecologist, this has been attributed to

Publication Date:

Sunday, June 14, 1998

Source: Down to Earth

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Pollution, Pesticides, Health Effects, Cancer, Children, Global, Statistics

Environment

Ban dilemma

A ban on insecticides in the US may throw up more problems than it seeks to solve. The sufferers will include children suffering from asthma

Publication Date:

14/05/1998

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment, Health Effects, Children, United States Of America (US)

Poverty

Double trouble

Poverty, especially in rural areas, and illiteracy go hand in hand. The majority of the world's poor, about

Publication Date:

Monday, April 14, 1997

Source: Down to Earth

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Rural Habitat, Children, Poverty, Education, Global, Developing Countries, Statistics

Health

Kit highs

for all parents in the us who suspect that their children are using drugs, a government-approved kit will soon be at their disposal. The kit called "Dr Brown's Home Drug Testing System" has

Publication Date:

27/02/1997

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Health, Children, Drugs, United States Of America (US)

Climate Change

In the story from the great Indian epic, Mahabharat , the legendary hero Arjun was once telling his wife Shubhadra how to penetrate the virtually unassailable ancient battle formation, Chakravyuha , destroy it and get out unscat

Publication Date:

30/08/1996

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

5

Issue:

19960831

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0

Tags:

Pollution, Health Effects, Infant mortality, Women, Children

Climate Change

Wave story

The threat to the foetus seems all pervasive, with even something as seemingly innocuous as a computer display screen being a threat. High levels of radiation (including X-rays, magnetic impulses

Publication Date:

30/08/1996

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

5

Issue:

19960831

pp:

0

Tags:

Pollution, Health Effects, Infant mortality, Women, Children

Transport

Misguiding lead

The next time you see a spoilt brat, do not blame his parents. It could be just because of some extra lead in his bones

Publication Date:

14/05/1996

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Pollution, Lead, Children, United States Of America (US)

Environment

Children of green stars!

What does your star foretell - are you born an environmentalist? So said Enviro-astronomical Star Gazer, a Central Pollution Control Board advertisement in, all major Indian newspapers,

Publication Date:

28/02/1996

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

4

Issue:

19960229

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0

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Environment, Children

Environment