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Issue 27
July , 2010
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Image for bulleted text  Wake up to the Civil Liability Nuclear Damage Bill 2010

Thumbnail for the story Here comes the civil liability nuclear damage bill 2010 to ‘provide for civil liability for nuclear damage, appointment ...More


Image for bulleted text UPDATES

Image for bulleted text  Radiation is caused everywhere and by everyone

In keeping with the opprobrium of Mayapuri Co60 radiation and a dire need for awareness on the subject, the hazards of R ...More

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Image for bulleted text  Toxic Trinkets: An Investigation of Lead in Children’s Jewellery in India 2010

Children’s jewellery is in vogue these days. In keeping with the tendency with children to suck or chew these trinkets, ...More

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Image for bulleted text REPORT / INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Image for bulleted text  Mercury Poisoning, The Dark Side Of Colombia's Gold Boom

Thumbnail for the story Colombia's gold bonanza has a dark side, U.N. experts said on Tuesday: mercury poisoning spreading from miners to the po ...More

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Image for bulleted text  5 mln USD to dioxin cleanup

Thumbnail for the story A five-million USD project to clean up hotspots of dioxin contamination in Vietnam was signed in Hanoi on June 28 by r ...More

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Image for bulleted text  Poland, USA agree to nuclear cooperation

Thumbnail for the story The USA and Poland have signed a joint declaration for cooperation in the field of nuclear energy. The signing of the ag ...More

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Image for bulleted text  New U.N. body to put value on planet

Thumbnail for the story The world relies on a range of services nature provides -- water filtration by forests, pollination by bees and a supply ...More

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Image for bulleted text  Draft Ewaste Rules by MoEF: Challenges and Opportunities

Electronic Waste is a problem posing serious environmental challenges world over. The Ministry of Environment and Forest ...More


Image for bulleted text PARTNERS

Image for bulleted text  Say YES to Environment Education

Thumbnail for the story YES BANK, India’s new age private sector Bank, entered into a strategic alliance with the Centre for Environment Educati ...More


Image for bulleted text EDITORIAL

Image for bulleted text  Thwarted anti-pollution laws

Thumbnail for the story It is believed that there are three kinds of lies: white, black and statistics. But the third might not hold true in the ...More


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Image for bulleted text  150 people fined in Mumbai for throwing plastic bags in drains

Plastic Bag Image Mumbai: Cracking the whip on all those throwing plastic bags in d ...More

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Image for bulleted text  Solid strategy for waste management

Thumbnail for the story The Confederation of Indian Industry and the Andhra Pradesh Techn ...More

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Image for bulleted text  ‘Govt. dragging its feet on hazardous waste management'

Hazadous waste thumb Environmentalists in the Capital have accused the Delhi Governmen ...More

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Image for bulleted text  Idol immersion goes green

idol immersion Police and local bodies will now have to ask devotees to remove c ...More

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Image for bulleted text  Excess lead in kids’ jewellery

jeweler Next time you think of adorning your children with in-vogue costu ...More

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Image for bulleted text  E-waste volume to increase in coming years

Thumbnail for the story India would be confronted with the threat of accumulation of E-wa ...More

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Image for bulleted text  IITs to help clean Ganga

Thumbnail for the story The country’s premier technology institutes, the IITs, have been ...More

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Image for bulleted text  Uranium, metals make Punjab toxic hotspot

Thumbnail for the story BATHINDA: After discovery of high levels of uranium in hair sampl ...More

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Image for bulleted text  Medical experts caution against herbal remedies

Thumbnail for the story New Delhi: The herbal remedies for various diseases may boomerang ...More

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Image for bulleted text  Climate Wars

climate change As the planet warms, floods, storms, rising seas and drought will ...More

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Image for bulleted text  Bhalswa, Okhla, Ghazipur landfills to turn into parks

landfills thumb Residents living in the vicinity of three major landfills — Bhals ...More

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