Land Pollution

Not learning from Bhopal

It is 25 years of the Bhopal gas disaster—the night when chemicals spewed out of the Union Carbide factory to kill and maim thousands over generations.

Publication Date:

31/12/2009

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

18

Issue:

15

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Pesticides, Health Effects, Waste Disposal, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Aldicarb, Carbaryl, Toxicity Studies, Pesticide Residues, Union Carbide, High Court, Madhya Pradesh, Toxic Wastes, Land Pollution

Industry

Vellore ranks 8th among top polluted zones

V NarayanaMurthi

A CPCB report says the quality of air, land and underground water of the district is alarmingly polluted
VELLORE has been rated among the top 10 `alarmingly polluted clusters' in the country. It has become an environmental time bomb, ticking away with the rise in industrial pollution here.

Publication Date:

29/12/2009

Source: New Indian Express (Chennai)

Tags:

Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Land Pollution, Industrial Pollution, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Industry, Tamil Nadu, Vellore (D)

Environment

Subterranean leak

25 years after the gas leak, another tragedy is unfolding in Bhopal reveals this latest study by Centre for Science & Environment. This study based on CSE's Pollution Monitoring Laboratory tests found that water and soil in & around the Union Carbide factory are loaded with pesticides.

Publication Date:

15/12/2009

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

18

Issue:

14

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Land Pollution, Heavy Metals, Health Effects, Compensation, Hazardous Waste, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Pesticide Residues, CSE Study, Union Carbide, Supreme Court, Groundwater Pollution

Water Pollution

Sewage water continues to flow into fields at Ambaji

The authorities seem to have run out of ideas how to arrest the rampant discharge of sewage waters in the paddy fields behind the District Hospital project at Ambaji

Publication Date:

04/12/2009

Source: Herald (Panjim)

Tags:

Water Pollution, Land Pollution, Sewage Pollution, Goa

Environment

Contamination of soil and water inside and outside the Union Carbide India Limited, Bhopal

25 years after the gas leak, another tragedy is unfolding in Bhopal reveals this study by Centre for Science & Environment. This study based on CSE's Pollution Monitoring Laboratory tests found that water and soil in & around the Union Carbide factory are loaded with pesticides.

Continuing nightmare in Bhopal: CSE laboratory tests soil, water samples from Union Carbide

For more than 25 years, the Union Carbide (UCIL) factory has been contaminating the land and water of Bhopal. Latest tests show that groundwater in areas even three km away from the factory contains almost 40 times more pesticides than Indian standards.

Publication Date:

01/12/2009

Source: Centre for Science and Environment

Tags:

Environment, Land Pollution, Health Effects, Pesticide Industry, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Aldicarb, Carbaryl, Pesticide Residues, CSE Study, Union Carbide, Groundwater Pollution

Science And Technology

Novel technologies for sniffing soil and ground water contaminants

The presence of hydrocarbons, dense non-aqueous phase liquids, heavy metals and radioactive wastes in soil and ground water represents a serious threat to health and safety. Detecting and delineating these contaminants in the subsurface is a challenging task.

Publication Date:

25/10/2009

Author(s): Pradeep U. Kurup

Source: Current Science

Vol:

97

Issue:

8

pp:

1212

Tags:

Groundwater Pollution, Land Pollution, Science And Technology

Water Pollution

Farmers forum seeks closure of dyeing units

THE Thamizhaga Vivasayigal Sangam has demanded the closure of all dyeing units along the Noyyal, Cauvery and Bavani rivers and the Kalingarayan canal to protect farm lands from pollution.

Publication Date:

14/10/2009

Source: New Indian Express (Chennai)

Tags:

Water Pollution, Land Pollution, Cauvery, Industrial Pollution, Noyyal, Farmers, Industrial Waste, Paint And Dye Industry, Tamil Nadu

Hazardous Waste

Confronting a toxic blowback from the electronics trade

China has been accepting vast quantities of discarded televisions, computers, printers, and other equipment from abroad since the early 1990s. E-waste processing, a burgeoning cabin industry in coastal parts of China, may end up dwarfing other examples of contamination, scientists argued at a symposium.

Publication Date:

28/08/2009

Author(s): Richard Stone

Source: Science

Vol:

325

Issue:

5944

pp:

1055

Tags:

Electronic Waste, China, Trade, Air Pollution, Land Pollution, Illegal Trade, Toxicology, Health Effects

Hazardous Waste

Chemical spill takes toll on fishing industry

Yagnesh Mehta TNN

Surat: Come Sundays and there is not enough parking space on the approach to beaches of South Gujarat. But this Sunday the story is altogether different. Tourists preferred to stay away from Tithal, Umargam and Umarsadi beaches in Valsad and Devka beach in Daman due to the overpowering stink of chemical residue strewn all over after being washed ashore over the last week.

Publication Date:

10/08/2009

Source: Times Of India (Ahmedabad)

Tags:

Water Pollution, Land Pollution, Sea Shores, Hazardous Waste, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Daman (D), Gujarat