Land Pollution

Accumulation of pharmaceuticals, enterococcus, and resistance genes in soils irrigated with wastewater for zero to 100 years in Central Mexico

Irrigation with wastewater releases pharmaceuticals, pathogenic bacteria, and resistance genes, but little is known about the accumulation of these contaminants in the environment when wastewater is applied for decades.

Publication Date:

25/09/2012

Author(s): Philipp Dalkmann, Melanie Broszat, Christina Siebe & et al

Source: PLoS ONE

Vol:

7

Issue:

9

pp:

1-10

Tags:

Wastewater Recycling, Irrigation, Mexico, Land Pollution, Micro Organisms, Sewage Pollution, Drugs

Agriculture

Soybean susceptibility to manufactured nanomaterials with evidence for food quality and soil fertility interruption

Based on previously published hydroponic plant, planktonic bacterial, and soil microbial community research, manufactured nanomaterial (MNM) environmental buildup could profoundly alter soil-based food crop quality and yield. However, thus far, no single study has at once examined the full implications, as no studies have involved growing plants to full maturity in MNM-contaminated field soil. We have done so for soybean, a major global commodity crop, using farm soil amended with two high-production metal oxide MNMs (nano-CeO2 and -ZnO).

Publication Date:

11/09/2012

Author(s): John H. Priester, Yuan Ge, Randall E. Mielke & et al

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Vol:

109

Issue:

37

pp:

E2451-E2456

Tags:

Agriculture, Nano Technology, Soyabean, Land Pollution, Research, Soil Capability

Pesticides And Toxins

Global Chemical Outlook: Towards sound management of chemicals

Coordinated action by governments and industry is urgently needed to reduce the growing risks to human health and the environment posed by the unsustainable management of chemicals worldwide, according to a by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Publication Date:

05/09/2012

Source: UNEP

Tags:

Chemical Industry, Toxins, Health Effects, Occupational Health, POPs, Pesticide Use, Africa, Heavy Metals, South Africa, Land Pollution, Water Pollution, China, Industrial Disasters, Cement Industry, Industrial Pollution

Water Resources

Science-policy bridges over troubled waters: making science deliver greater impacts in shared water systems

The GEF IW:Science synthesis report, brings together the findings and efforts of the IW System Type Working Groups (Groundwater, Lakes, Rivers, Land-based Pollution Sources and, Large Marine Ecosystems and the Open Ocean).

Publication Date:

01/09/2012

Author(s): Laurence Mee, Zafar Adeel

Source: United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH)

Tags:

Water Resources, Groundwater, Lakes, Rivers, Land Pollution, Marine Ecosystems, India, South Asia, Global

Environment

Pollution lapse finger at sponge iron units

Environment minister Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar today said sponge iron factories in the state had not responded to the government’s offer to undertake modernised projects for combating pollution.

Publication Date:

01/09/2012

Source: Telegraph (Kolkata)

Tags:

Iron And Steel Industry, Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Land Pollution, Green Rating Projects - CSE, Ecology, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Occupational Safety, CSE, Occupational Health, Environment, West Bengal

Industry

Iron units yet to act on govt’s offer of CBM

The state government had offered lucrative packages to sponge iron units to switch to coal-bed methane (CBM) as an alternate fuel, but none of the units came up with a proposal, rued state environm

Publication Date:

01/09/2012

Source: Statesman (Kolkata)

Tags:

Iron And Steel Industry, Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Land Pollution, Green Rating Projects - CSE, Ecology, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Occupational Safety, CSE, Occupational Health, Environment, West Bengal, Methane, Alternative Fuels, Steel Authority of India (SAIL), Industrial Waste

Environment

Steel Plants in WB Flouting Environmental Norms: CSE

Steel plants in West Bengal are blatantly "flouting environmental norms" by polluting land, water and air, according to a green rating survey.

Publication Date:

01/09/2012

Source: Outlook (New Delhi)

Tags:

Iron And Steel Industry, Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Land Pollution, Green Rating Projects - CSE, Ecology, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Occupational Safety, CSE, Occupational Health, Environment, West Bengal

Environment

Steelmakers in West Bengal flouting environmental norms: Centre for Science and Environment

Steel plants in West Bengal are blatantly "flouting environmental norms" by polluting land, water and air, according to a green rating survey.

Publication Date:

01/09/2012

Source: Economic Times (New Delhi)

Tags:

Iron And Steel Industry, Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Land Pollution, Green Rating Projects - CSE, Ecology, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Occupational Safety, CSE, Occupational Health, Environment, West Bengal

Industry

Steelmakers in Bengal flouting environmental norms, says research body

Steel plants in West Bengal are blatantly “flouting environmental norms” by polluting land, water and air, according to a green rating survey.

Publication Date:

01/09/2012

Source: Business Line (New Delhi)

Tags:

Iron And Steel Industry, Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Land Pollution, Green Rating Projects - CSE, Ecology, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Occupational Safety, CSE, Occupational Health, Environment, West Bengal

Environment

Steelmakers in Bengal flouting environmental norms: CSE

Steel plants in West Bengal are blatantly "flouting environmental norms" by polluting land, water and air, according to a green rating survey. New Delhi-based research body Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) studied 21 large steelmakers, 16 of which are from the eastern part of the country, to find out how green and clean the sector is.

"West Bengal accounts for three of these, and all three have fared miserably in the rating," said Chandra Bhushan, CSE's deputy director general and the head of the project. The report was released here on Friday by state Environment Minister Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar.

Publication Date:

01/09/2012

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

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