As per study conducted by National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER), the State has been made to bear total environment cost due to mining to the tune of Rs 548.4 crore.
This was revealed by Chief Minister Digambar Kamat in his written reply to an unstarred question tabled by Sanguem MLA Vasudev Gaonkar.
He had sought to know whether the government had calculated environment cost o
BHUBANESWAR: The tiger prawns, crabs and fishes of Chilika are not just delicious but among the safest in India sans toxicity, a monitoring study by Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI) has revealed.
Since fish is at the top of the food chain, they are prone to bio-accumulation and toxic substances like heavy metals, pesticides and insecticide residues are found.
Contrary to the claims made by Union Carbide Corporation — now The Dow Chemical Company — that the methyl isocyanate (MIC) which killed thousands of people in Bhopal in December, 1984, following a leak in its pesticide unit, was not highly poisonous, a report released by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has established that it caused not only “acute cyanide toxici
Since the completion of the endosulfan review in 2005, a significant amount of new information has become available in relation to both the toxicity and environmental aspects associated with endosulfan.
This document is an update to the 202 HED human health risk assessment that was used to prepare the 2002 reregistration eligibility decision document for endosulfan. HED has previously pubublished an addendum that focused on the changes in HED
This report represents the conclusions of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee convened to evaluate the safety of various food additives, with a view to recommending acceptable daily intakes (ADIs) and to preparing specifications for identity and purity.
Motor vehicles are a significant source of urban air pollution and are increasingly important contributors of anthropogenic carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
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.
The testing of substances for adverse effects on humans and the environment needs a radical overhaul if we are to meet the challenges of ensuring health and safety.
