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big cat in trouble: Indonesia's last tiger species

Publication Date: 
29/04/2004
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Chemical Fertilisers, Health Effects, Chemical Industry, Malaria, Endangered Species, Tiger, Poaching, Research, Indonesia, Germany, United Kingdom (UK)
Agriculture

 No more magic in Abra

People in the Philippines rouse themselves to save the valley of their ancestors

Publication Date: 
29/04/2004
Sarita Bahl
Down to Earth
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River Pollution, Groundwater Pollution, Agriculture, Mining, Minerals, Rivers, Health Effects, Fisheries, Philippines
India

 RED ALERT in nuclear India

India s pampered nuclear power programme is losing steam. Uranium stocks are almost over; people won t let the government dig new mines; all projects are running late and new technology is almost impossible to get as decommissioning reactors is the trend

Publication Date: 
29/04/2004
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Pollution, Pollution Control, Mining, Uranium, Health Effects, Nuclear Power, Compensation, Radiation, Occupational Health, Fast Breeders, Supreme Court, India, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Meghalaya
Biodiversity

 THERE IS NO JUSTICE

E VIJAYALAKSHMI and RUHANI KAUR travel around Padre village, Kasargod district, Kerala and find what living with endosulfan has done to the area and its people

Publication Date: 
14/04/2004
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Pest Control, Plantation Crops, Health Effects, Endosulfan, Kerala, Kasaragod (D)
India

 LIES, DAMN LIES AND ENDOSULFAN

At Down To Earth (DTE) we believe that truth withheld is truth denied. Fresh evidence suggests a web of lies and deceit was weaved to declare that the pesticide endosulfan is not responsible for the horrendous mutations and ailments that many in the villages of Kerala’s Kasaragod district are suffering from.

Publication Date: 
14/04/2004
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Health Effects, Pesticide Industry, Diagnostic Methods, Pesticides And Toxins, Endosulfan, Pesticide Residues, Research, India, Kerala, Kasaragod (D)
Environment

The Bhopal gas tragedy: An environmental disaster

The multi-disciplinary study of histopathology and toxicology of Bhopal gas tragedy resolved several issues. First, the progression of severe pulmonary oedema to chronic fibrosis was confirmed experimentally, following a single exposure to MIC. Analysis of the residue in Tank 610 revealed over 21 chemicals.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2004
S. Sriramachari
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Environment, Pesticide Industry, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Chemical Leakages, Methyl Isocyanate (MIC), Toxicity Studies, Union Carbide, Indian Council Of Medical Research (ICMR), Health Effects
Environment

  Psychosocial care should be a component of overall health care

K SEKAR, assistant professor, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences NIMHANS , Bangalore, talks to NEELAM SINGH about psychosocial distress among survivors of the Latur and Osmanabad earthquake ten years since the tragedy, and the role of

Publication Date: 
14/03/2004
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Health Effects, Earthquakes, Disaster Management, Disaster Preparedness, Mental Health, Andhra Pradesh, Bangalore (D)
Environment

 X factor

X-rays increase cancer risk

Publication Date: 
14/03/2004
Max Martin
Down to Earth
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Health Effects, Cancer, Diagnostic Methods, Radiation, Research
India

 Avian flu flitting from birds to humans

Even as India is trying to build a firewall to block out the bird flu virus, the first likely case of the deadly pathogen s human to human transmission has surfaced in Vietnam. Two siblings in Hanoi are suspected to have contracted the disease from their

Publication Date: 
28/02/2004
T V Jayan
Down to Earth
Tags:
Poultry, Health Effects, Trade, Birds, Research, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, India
Climate Change

 Red alert

Blood storage bags are unhealthy

Publication Date: 
28/02/2004
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health Effects, Blood, Research

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