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Authorities in Singapore have said that they are satisfied with efforts by Malaysian vegetable growers to cut down on the use of pesticides. Quoting Singapore's Primary Production Department
Authorities in Singapore have said that they are satisfied with efforts by Malaysian vegetable growers to cut down on the use of pesticides. Quoting Singapore's Primary Production Department
The Kyoto Protocol of 1997, aimed at cutting carbon emissions to mitigate climate change, has been used to push nuclear energy for more than two years. The idea is to get legitimacy for nuclear as it
The Philippines finally enacts a law to reduce pollution<br> <br>
Communities in Rajasthan reject draft wasteland policy
India's first secured hazardous waste landfill, coming up Ankleshwar, is being built and managed by Bharuch Envirci Infrastructure Limited (BEIL), a company formed for the purpose by the
No littering in bhutan: Bhutan has passed a law to prevent littering and pollution in the kingdom's capital Thimphu. The Thimphu Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules and Regulations 2007 will come
radioactive wastes: A Pakistani senator recently accused the country's nuclear authorities of dumping radioactive waste near a village in the Punjab province causing cancer, miscarriages, and
pepsi pollutes and it's official now. A recent study by Kerala's groundwater department has traced toxic chemicals in the groundwater at the Pepsi plant in Pudussery panchayat in the arid Palakkad
The government turns a Nelson s eye while the construction sector makes hay on phosphogypsum, a carcinogenic byproduct of the fertiliser industry
A blast in a secret weapons factory in the off limits city of Tomsk 7 shook western Siberia recently and revived memories of Chernobyl.
more than one in 10 of the aquatic birds in Spain's Donana National Park are suffering from the effects of high levels of heavy metals after a toxic spill at the Los Frailes zinc mine a year
A clean and green way to reduce acid rain has been developed by Chang Yul Cha of the University of Wyoming in Laramie. The process cuts sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from coal-fired smokestacks
<p>Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan, Dec 2013 Erratic climate change events have hit the rice production in Pakistan this year and to take account of damages, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in its end-of-the-season report has downgraded its production forecast for the country by 600,000 tonnes to 8.7 million tonnes (5.8m tonnes, milled basis). Read more in this December 2013 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan</p>
Early exposure to mosquitoes may help develop resistance to malaria where chances of infection are high
A new technique helps recover metals from water. It could be toxic metals, or even gold
Zimbabwe s urban farmers are finally being seen as answers to its development ills
CLEAN AND SAFE: Cashing in on the growing requirement for clean water, the Pune-based Thermax Ltd is setting up a joint venture company with Culligan Water Technologies Ltd of the US. The new venture
The water we drink may be contaminated with the drugs we excrete through our urine
US EPA proposes dilution of pollution reporting
Radiation leakage from 2,000 underground, corroded drums that stored radioactive waste contaminated water in areas surrounding a nuclear plant in Japan