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Millions of people are unwittingly pouring hundreds of tonnes of tiny plastic beads down the drain.

Next time you shampoo or clean your teeth, you may inadvertently be contributing to a spreading scourge of the world’s oceans.

More than three months after regulators were told that a coal ash containment pond in North Carolina had failed and was dumping toxic sludge into the nearby Dan River, environmental experts are tak

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Bench, Pune) in the matter of Asim Sarode & Anr Vs. MPCB & Ors dated 05/05/2014 regarding air pollution caused due to burning of tyres in the public places in the state of Maharashtra, Gujarat & Goa.

Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/43-2013(WZ)(OA)_5May2014.pdf

Previous Orders: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/e-orders.php?eid=6703

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New industry initiative aims to enhance transparency and drive improvements

 

Exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) during fetal development can increase the risk of adverse health effects during childhood. Maternal characteristics and physiological changes during gestation such as gestational weight gain (GWG) may have an influence in the overall burden of POPs in neonates. However, the associations between GWG and POP concentrations are still not well established.

Apple is offering free recycling of all its used products and vowing to power all of its stores, offices and data centres with renewable energy to reduce the pollution caused by its devices and onl

White-rumped vultures (Gyps bengalensis) are disappearing fast from Bangladesh due to the unchecked use of toxic drugs in cattle apart from food crisis and the loss of their habitats.

Hyderabad: Lack of adequate recycling capacity for electronic waste is costing the country several thousands crore of rupees each year.

Greenpeace has recently published a number of investigations showing that a wide range of textile products, manufactured and sold in many countries around the world, can contain residues of hazardous substances, including hormone-disrupting alkylphenols and their ethoxylates, reprotoxic phthalates, highly persistent per- and polyfluorinated chem

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