Man-made chemicals in everyday products are likely to be at least the partial cause of a global surge in birth deformities, hormonal cancers and psychiatric diseases, a U.N.-sponsored research team

Mumbai: Mangroves in the city are in peril. Green cover in Mahul, Chembur has come under threat after toxins were dumped there last week.

The incident was reported behind a Slum Rehabilitation Authority building (SRA) in Mahul where trucks have reportedly been discarding oil residue on the mangroves. Locals said that the activity has been going on since the last one week. The matter was reported to the forest department and the mangrove cell has already inspected the area and taken samples. However, those dumping the deposits remain unidentified.

Campaigners say the conclusion by the European Food Safety Authority is a 'death knell' for neonicotinoid pesticides

Seventy-seven percent of the population of the country is exposed to lead-based paints that can cause them irreversible brain damage, particularly who are under the age of six, experts said yesterd

Fifteen swans have died after being poisoned in Central China's Hunan province, officials said on Monday.

New scientific data has been released linking a chemical commonly found in plastic bottles and inside aluminum cans to a biomarker for higher risk of heart and kidney disease in children and adoles

Most food items contain toxins like mercury, pesticides and acrylamide that can affect children in the long run

Even healthy food like fruit, vegetables, meat and fish might be putting children’s health at risk. These food items also contain toxins like mercury, pesticides and acrylamide that can, over a long time, make children vulnerable to cancer and affect their nervous and reproductive systems. This is the finding of a study on effects of 11 such food-borne toxins on people of different age groups in the US, carried out by researchers from the University of California, Davis, and University of California, Los Angeles. Irva Hertz-Picciotto, professor and chief of the division of environmental and occupational health at University of California, Davis, says toxins in food affect children the most as their brains and other organs are still developing.

The Punjab Government has banned the retail sale of bottled correction fluid used on printed pages and nail paint remover besides bottled thinners to check their abuse as intoxicants by children.