India

 Is it all grey?

NIDHI JAMWAL looks at ways to utilise flyash, and so combat a polluting scourge

Publication Date: 
29/06/2003
Down to Earth
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20030630
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Pollution Control, Health Effects, Bricks, Roads, Bridges, Waste Conversion, Environmental Health, Silicosis, Electricity, Thermal Power Plants, Cement Industry, NGO, India, Delhi, Statistics
India

 Lead menace

India seems to be doing very little about lead hazards as the paint industry continues using the product

Publication Date: 
30/12/2002
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health Effects, Maternal Health, Child Health, Environmental Health, Paint And Dye Industry, Legislation, WHO, NGO, India
Fisheries

 Toxic fallout

INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH . November . 2002 NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999 saw bombing of many factories. The world media covered the campaign extensively.

Publication Date: 
29/11/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Air Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Fisheries, Environmental Health, Auto Industry, NGO
Energy

 Choking effects

Workers suffer from respiratory ailments after cleaning World Trade Centre debris

Publication Date: 
14/09/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Respiratory Diseases, Construction Workers, Environmental Health, United States Of America (US)
Air Pollution

Lung cancer, cardiopulmonary mortality and long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution

Associations have been found between day-to-day particulate air pollution and increased risk of various adverse health outcomes, including cardiopulmonary mortality. However, studies of health effects of long-term particulate air pollution have been less conclusive.

Publication Date: 
06/03/2002
C. Arden Pope III, Richard T. Burnett, Michael J. Thun & et al
JAMA
287
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Air Pollution, Health Effects, Epidemiological Studies, Cancer, Lung Cancer, Heart Diseases, Environmental Health, United States Of America (US)
India

 Data wise

A database is imperative, yet is nowhere in sight

Publication Date: 
27/02/2002
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Health Policy, Medical Research, Environmental Health, Government Of India (GOI), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India, Diseases
Poverty

 An uphill task

Sustainability still a long way off, says Worldwatch

Publication Date: 
14/02/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Global Warming, Diarrhoea, Emissions Trading, Tuberculosis, AIDS, Pneumonia, Environmental Health, Poverty, NGO, South Africa, Sustainable Development, Developing Countries
India

 A killer stalks Siliguri

Messing around with the environment has led to the emergence of new and deadly diseases

Publication Date: 
30/03/2001
Down to Earth
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Health Care, Environmental Health, Research, West Bengal, Siliguri, Sustainable Development, Diseases
Air Pollution

 Sudden death

A mystery disease kills 35 people in Siliguri

Publication Date: 
30/03/2001
Jayanta Basu
Down to Earth
Tags:
River Pollution, Waste Disposal, Health Care, Vector Borne Diseases, Environmental Health, West Bengal, Siliguri, Diseases
Sanitation

 Asian rubbish

Asian countries seem to compete with each other to spew out waste. Rising populations,

Publication Date: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health Effects, Urbanisation, Population Trends, Environmental Health, Hazardous Products, Asia, Toxic Wastes

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