From the rainforests of Africa to the mountain-top coal mines of West Virginia, six campaigners who have fought governments and industry to protect the planet won prestigious Goldman Environmental Prizes on Sunday.
The amount of litter dumped on beaches across Britain has more than doubled in the last 15 years to its highest ever level, endangering the health of wildlife and humans, according to a survey on Wednesday.
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said its beachwatch 2008 annual survey had found an average of 2,195 items of litter per kilometer of beach, a rise of 110 percent since 1994.
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The waste produced during coffee pulping is very toxic and releasing this waste directly to the environment without processing it was a cause of concern for many planters.
Kenya's huge and squalid slums don't have much of anything, except mountains of trash that fill rivers and muddy streets, breeding disease.
Now Kenyan designers have built a cooker that uses the trash as fuel to feed the poor, provide hot water and destroy toxic waste, as well as curbing the destruction of woodlands.
Chandigarh: The curious finding of uranium in the hair and bodies of mentally and physically challenged children in Faridkot has impelled the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to send an investigative team to Faridkot. S K Malhotra, DAE spokesperson in Mumbai, told TOI,
Faridkot: High levels of radioactive element in special children: Experts collect water samples
After finding high levels of uranium in the hair samples of differently-abled children, experts have now sent water samples for testing to find the source of this radioactive element.
Mumbai Several people living along the Waldhuni river bordering Kalyan and Ulhasnagar in the Thane district reportedly fell sick on Thursday morning due to invisible noxious fumes emanating from the river.
The death toll among ducks that landed on a toxic waste pond at Syncrude Canada Ltd's oil sands operation last spring was 1,606, more than three times higher than previously made public, Syncrude's chief executive said on Tuesday.
