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Air Pollution in Tamil Nadu is a Cause of Concern for Environmentalists

... found air samples //from the state among the most polluted in India. The groups have urged the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board to apply for central funds to set up volatile organic compounds (VOC) and sulphur gas monitoring stations in Manali, Mettur, Cuddalore, Tuticorin and other industrialised areas. ...

Four Jaundice Cases Detected In Bathinda

...g for the past few days that they had been getting polluted water. (Source:PTI News)...

Students of Dharamsala Hospitalized for Diarrhoea

...he general assumption, he said, points to a nearby polluted stream and chemical fertilizers applied to the surrounding fields. As a precaution, the school is now using the underground water, even for washing, and that for the time being vegetables have been cut off from the menu of the school mess. (Sourc...

Maharashtra warns against Mahim's 'miracle' water

...rnment Sunday warned people against drinking// the polluted water. Scientists clarified that the seawater had turned sweet due to the natural phenomenon of dilution. "Dilution is a phenomenon observed all along the western coast of India during the southwest monsoon and occurs when rainwater borne by rive...

Smoke-Filled Cars: New Fodder for the Next Clean Air Fight

...ban proponents. “No one has ever measured just how polluted it can get inside a vehicle,” Hyland said. This year two states — Arkansas and Louisiana — adopted private-vehicle smoking bans to protect children from secondhand smoke. Hyland said: “One of the potential policy remedies is to say you shouldn’t ...

Yamuna Pollution Kills Thousands Of Fish

...the river's old glory. "The dry river bed or the polluted contents of the river are a threat to the Taj Mahal and not the air pollution about which such a fuss has been made," he added. Source-IANS...

Delhi's Sanitation in a Pathetic State: UNDP

...plants before the filth is dumped into the already polluted Yamuna river. 'In some cities, coverage (sanitation area) rates are high but sewerage systems are in extreme disrepair. Delhi has many of the trappings of a developed country sanitation model but appearances belie some serious problems,' the report...

Pesticides Linked to High Risk of Pediatric Cancers - a Study Unveils

...te. The farming community is known to be severely polluted with pesticides 80 percent of which is used for potato farming (19 sprays) in a single growing season. According to the Environmental Working Group, potatoes are among the produce that are highly contaminated with pesticides in the US. Early monito...

3,600 Dead in Iran Due to Air Pollution, in One Month

...,600 deaths in a month, in one of the world’s most polluted cities, Tehran, //which has led city officials to label it as a 'collective suicide.' Air pollution is serious in Tehran, due to the availability of inexpensive fuel that has led to widespread and indiscriminate use of vehicles, defying universal e...

Act Now To Cleanse Highly Polluted River Hindon, Says Study

...stern Uttar Pradesh has become one of India's most polluted rivers due to callous industries as well as indifferent authorities and is causing serious diseases // , says a new study. A once clean river has been reduced to a trunk sewer passing through urban towns, carrying a heavy load of pesticides release...

Pregnant Women Must Eat Fish-experts Warn

...to contain very high amounts of mercury due to the polluted waters in which they live. In 2004, the U.S government and environmental regulators warned of the risks of more than 340 g of fish per week to pregnant women. Another study last year by Harvard University, cautioned against excessive fish intake as...

Eating Polluted Fish can Increase the Risk of Diabetes

Eating fish polluted by manmade toxic chemicals and industrial effluent...researchers has shown that people whose bodies are polluted by high levels of chemicals including the pesticide DDT and industrial coolants called PCBs are more...

Earth Day Celebrated With Hopes of a Greener Tomorrow

Disappearing trees, a polluted river and a handful of concerned citizens. Delhi, ...y else, despite knowing that it is one of the most polluted rivers, will they keep on building up various constructions on its floodplains and contribute non- b...

Women Deliver Babies With Eye Defects in Jharkhand Villages

...aling toxic elements or are consuming them through polluted drinking water," said Nitish Priyadarshi, an environmentalist, who has worked on water pollution in coal mining areas. He added: "The state government should investigate the water and air pollution with the help of experts to ascertain the exact r...

West Wants Developing Countries to Cut Down on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

... of American capitalism, has been branded the most polluted city in the US. On the other hand studies have s...e American Lung Association's bad air list of most polluted cities in America. The association found that the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside metropolitan ar...

Hong Kong Choked by Growing Pollution Problem

...e fetid air over Deep Bay, one of Hong Kong's most polluted stretches of water. Ten years after the territory was handed back to the Chinese, pollution is one of the biggest problems facing the former British colony as it bears the environmental consequences of China's rampant economic growth. For around a ...

Traders Smell Something Fishy in Tokyo Market Move

... Gas Co., which revealed in 2001 that the area was polluted with deadly cyanogen and arsenic. "How can we move to land heavily polluted by cyanogen and arsenic? We, people who deal with fish, one of the staples for the Japanese," Noze s...

Green Campaigners Concerned About Yamuna's Shrinking Floodplains

...wealth Games. This will further choke the highly polluted river and spell danger for the city's water securi... By some accounts, the Yamuna is one of the most polluted rivers in the world, especially around the Indian capital. The river has been badly affected by th...

Sewage Flows into Hudson River in a Torrent

...sary." The Hudson River is the thirty-third most polluted river in the United States. Contaminants such as PCB's (Polychlorinated biphenyl's) and DDT are present in the Hudson River. It has been declared as a superfund site. Superfund sites are the nation's worst toxic waste sites and massive clean-up pro...

Chandigarh Set to Be No-smoking Zone from July 15

...rk, while around 700 million children, breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke, particularly at home. India is the third largest tobacco producer and consumer in the world after China and United States of America. India exports only one fourth of its total annual tobacco output, which is nearly 545 million ki...

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