India

 Sabotage?

India s first public hearing on a nuclear reactor in Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, fails to take off

Publication Date: 
14/07/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Nuclear Power, Health Care, Kalpakkam APS, NGO, Nuclear Weapons, India, Tamil Nadu
Energy

 Greening young minds

A school near Kodaikanal nurtures children for an ecofriendly future

Publication Date: 
14/07/2001
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Palni Hills, Water Conservation, Children, Energy, Electricity, Education, Tamil Nadu
India

 Derailed

Tamil Nadu s initiative to promote wind energy

Publication Date: 
14/06/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Energy Policy, Wind Energy, Energy Technology, Private Sector, India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
India

 Mercury threat

the former employees of the Hindustan Lever Limited's ( hll ) thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, are protesting against the com

Publication Date: 
30/05/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health Effects, Workers, Mercury, Hazardous Products, Greenpeace, India, Tamil Nadu, Kodaikanal, Toxic Wastes
India

 Scared to leap

Amphibians in India are besieged by numerous threats

Publication Date: 
30/05/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Himalaya, Western Ghats, Pesticides, Endangered Species, Habitat, Frogs, Life Science, Research, India, Jammu & Kashmir, Orissa (Odisha), Tamil Nadu, Darjiling (D), Diseases
India

 Mini Nilgiri reserve

a biosphere reserve on the lines of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve ( nbr ) is being developed at Anaikatti, 35 km from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The Coimba

Publication Date: 
14/05/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Nilgiri, Flora, Fauna, Biosphere Reserves, Tamil Nadu
Air Pollution

Cytogenetic monitoring of men occupationally exposed to airborne pollutants

A study of structural chromosomal aberration frequencies in peripheral blood lymphocytes was performed in a group of 20 professional drivers exposed to airborne pollutants and 20 matching controls. The subjects in the latter group were of the same sex (males) and of similar age as the exposed ones, and also had similar habits of smoking and alcohol.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2001
C. K. Chitra, H. Vishwanathan, E. Deepa & et al
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Occupational Health, Air Pollution, Health Effects, Coimbatore (T), Tamil Nadu
Water Pollution

 Tanned Order

Authorities and the leather industry owners in Tamil Nadu dodge court orders, while a few individuals raise voices to save their ecosystems from tannery waste

Publication Date: 
29/04/2001
Binayak Das
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, Ecosystems, Leather Industry, Palar, Health Effects, Farmers, Compensation, Technology, Supreme Court, Tamil Nadu
Transport

 Kodaikanal Mercury Dumping

Environmental activists in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, are protesting against Hindustan Lever Limited's (HLL) dumping of toxic mercury waste in the town and in the reserve of Pambar Shola. The waste,

Publication Date: 
14/04/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Glass Industry, Waste Disposal, Mercury, Tamil Nadu, Kodaikanal, Toxic Wastes
India

 INDIA

• The water crisis in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, may soon be abated. The city will start getting water from the Narmada River via the Raska wier. Other areas that will benefit include Vadodara,

Publication Date: 
14/04/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Deforestation, Supreme Court, Tamil Nadu

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