Pesticides And Toxins

Uranium deforms kids in Faridkot

Doctors Baffled As There

Publication Date: 
02/04/2009
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Uranium, Health Effects, Child Health, Pesticides And Toxins, Punjab, Faridkot (D), Toxins
Health

Uranium in Punjab kids hair

Tests sponsored by a voluntary group caring for special children in south-western Punjab have shown toxic levels of uranium in samples of hair taken from 149 children, all under the age of 13 years.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2009
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Uranium, Health Effects, Child Health, Punjab, Toxins
Water Pollution

Industrial waste polluting environment at Rupganj

Acute environment pollution is prevailing at Rupganj because the industrial units at the upazila have no treatment plant of management of industrial waste. The industrial units at Rupshi, Kahina, gandarbapur Kazi para, Moikoli, Barpa Ariabo, Mashaboo and Khadon area of Rupganj upazila are dumping untreated industrial waste through canals, which is polluting the environment of the area.

Publication Date: 
23/03/2009
New Nation (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Pollution, River Pollution, Health Effects, Industrial Pollution, Bangladesh
Hazardous Waste

Bhopal plant disaster situation summary

During the night of 2-3 December 1984, a leak of some 40 tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas mixed with unknown other gasses from a chemical plant owned and operated by Union Carbide (India) Limited, a partly-owned subsidiary of the US-based Union Carbide Corporation, caused one of the highest-casualty industrial accidents of the 20th century.

Publication Date: 
20/03/2009
MJ Peterson
University of Massachusetts
Tags:
Pollution, Health Effects, Industrial Disasters, Gas Leakages, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (D)
Pesticides And Toxins

Adulterated Holi colours: Toll rises to 84 in Ambernath

Mumbai: About 84 children from Ambernath in Thane district were hospitalised after they took ill reportedly due to the use of adulterated colours on Holi.

The children were treated for nausea, headache and breathlessness on Wednesday and are stated to be stable now.

Publication Date: 
13/03/2009
Indian Express (Mumbai)
Tags:
Health Effects, Hazardous Products, Maharashtra, Thane (D), Toxins
Solid Waste

Burning garbage a problem again at Vellalore dump yard

COIMBATORE: The menace of burning garbage returned to the Coimbatore Corporation

Publication Date: 
11/03/2009
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Pollution, Health Effects, Solid Waste, Garbage, Waste Disposal, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore (D)
Hazardous Waste

That bluish-grey metal is toxic

Lead is found in products like water pipes, printing ink, paints and even Ayurvedic medicines, apart from battery cells posing hazards, says Uma Rajarathnam

Publication Date: 
10/03/2009
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Lead, Health Effects, Hazardous Products, Toxins
Pesticides And Toxins

Mercury contamination in fish in West Bengal: summary of the findings

Mercury is one of the most dangerous environmental pollutants, both in its elemental form and in chemical combination. When mercury is released into the environment it gets transformed into methyl mercury through microbial action. The methylation of mercury is a key step in the entrance of mercury into food chains. This methyl mercury is mercury in its most pernicious form.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2009
Toxics Link
Tags:
Food Contamination, Food Adulteration, Food Additives, Prevention of Food Adulteration Act 1954, Fish, Health Effects, Mercury, FAO, WHO, West Bengal, Toxins
Energy

A breath of fresh air: Protos the plant oil stove

With a project that originally began in 1998 with the work of
Dr. Ing. Elmar Stumpf at the University of Hohenheim in Germany,

Publication Date: 
01/02/2009
Samuel N. Shiroff
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Tags:
Indoor Air Pollution, Coconut, Oil Palm, Health Effects, Household Appliances, Energy, Household Energy, Appropriate Technology, Indonesia
Energy

Women and household energy in Sahelian countries

This publication by the Programme for the Promotion of Household and Alternative Energy sources in the Sahel (PREDAS) is a summary of a series of surveys and analyses conducted in the Sahelian countries of Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Chad.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2009
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Indoor Air Pollution, Desert Spread, Niger, Health Effects, Forest Management, Deforestation, Firewood, LPG, Coal, Women, Energy, Household Energy, Charcoal, Africa, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Mali, Senegal

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