A cheap way to clean up radioactive waste a common ingredient of sunscreens, when mixed with another ingredient of soaps, can clean up wastewater containing radioactive material. Upon heating, titanium dioxide and caustic soda form a ceramic. This, a group of Australian and Chinese researchers found, could absorb radioactive material. With the demand for nuclear material for

Clemenceau stranded again: Citizens groups can now go to court against the French warship Le Clemenceau docking in the UK water for dismantling in the country. UK

The indictment of the Punjab Pollution Control Board by the Punjab and Haryana High Court could not have come a day too soon. Without mincing words, the court has held the board responsible for not taking action against the polluting industries in Dera Bassi.

Bloomberg / Vienna/new Delhi November 12, 2008, 0:05 IST
French authorities made headlines last month when they said as many as 500 sets of radioactive buttons had been installed in elevators around the country. It wasn't an isolated case.

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VASCO, NOV 8
Greenpeace, internationally renowned organization, has praised and thanked the members of Chicalim Villagers Action Committee (CVAC) for the help given to them during their protest action programme in Goa, recently.
CVAC office bearers Cyril Fernandes and Rui Manuel Costa Araujo were hailed for the helping hands during the protest.

CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court today directed the Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) to open the sulphuric feeding plant (SFP) of Paradeep Phosphates Limited (PPL), that had been sealed by the State agency on October 30 despite the former

The chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), New Delhi, will now look into the alleged non-functioning of the effluent treatment plant (ETP) of the Punjab Meats Limited (PML) Industries, Dera Bassi. The PML is owned by Dr A S Bindra, father of ace shooter Abhinav Bindra.