Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Simbhaoli mills and distillery direct source of polluting the river Ganga Maintaining that it is the corporate social responsibility of the industries to ensure there is no environmental pollution as a result of their activities, the National Green Tribunal on Thursday imposed a penalty of Rs.5 crore on the Simbhaoli …
For nearly 20 years, New Englanders drank and bathed in water without knowing it was laced with a neurotoxin. The chemical leached into the water from vinyl coating sprayed inside water pipes in the late 1960s in response to complaints the water smelled and tasted funny. More than half of …
Report Confirms Concerns Raised By Experts In The Past The Environment Status Report (ESR) of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for 2013-14 has confirmed what environmentalists and experts have said all along -expanding the city limits would strain Pune's infrastructure and in turn lead to serious environmental degradation. The report …
Recently, many emerging countries have established subsidized health insurance schemes to provide financial protection and support access to health care to poor households. The challenge to ensure the long term sustainability of such schemes is huge. In this paper, the impact of the health environment on the long term sustainability …
Deputy Chief Minister in–charge Public Health Engineering (PHE) Prof RC Laloo today said that the life span of the dam of the Greater Shillong Water Supply Scheme (GSWSS) is expected to be shortened due to the environmental degradation of the catchment of feeder river. Prof Laloo during the question hour …
Announces "Green" Hospitals and more Public Health Institutes On the occasion of World Environment Day, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister, Dr Harsh Vardhan, has announced his resolve for greening the health care and to converting All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi into a green hospital. With …
In a setback to Mahagenco, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the power utility to strictly abide by the union ministry for environment and forests' (MoEF) notification which calls for use of clean coal technology to bring down pollution levels and menace of fly ash generated by inferior coal …
Hyderabad: As the state was focused on election results on May 16, the AP Pollution Control Board, which is being divided by June 2, was busy issuing permits to polluting industries. Against the normal 35-40 permits a month (consent for establishments CFE) and (consent for operation CFO) to polluting industrial …
In new estimates released today, WHO reports that in 2012 around 7 million people died - one in eight of total global deaths – as a result of air pollution exposure. This finding more than doubles previous estimates and confirms that air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental …
Concern Over High Mercury Content, Absence Of Recycling Spent CFLs may be polluting the environment silently and causing a toxic hazard for kabadiwalas who handle such discarded bulbs. Despite a huge spike in the demand (about 30% in the last five years) for these energy-saving lamps, a recent survey by …
This document is designed to provide basic and flexible guidance on conducting a national or subnational assessment of current and future vulnerability (i.e. the susceptibility of a population or region to harm) to the health risks of climate change, and of policies and programmes that could increase resilience, taking into …
This report reviews recent developments in China’s formal national air pollution policies from late 2011 to late 2013. It also reviews the related legal framework and administrative structure of implementation of air pollution prevention and control measures in China, to illustrate the context and legal significance of these trends. The …
India ranks 155th out of 178 countries in its efforts to address environmental challenges, according to the 2014 Environmental Performance Index (EPI). India performs the worst among other emerging economies including, China, which ranks 118th, Brazil, at 77th, Russia, at 73rd, and South Africa at 72nd. A bottom performer on …
Environmental Defence ranks the largest cosmetics companies in Canada from best to worst on their chemical policies and use of toxic ingredients in their products. A new report finds the largest cosmetics companies in Canada still need to give their products and policies a makeover when it comes to toxic …
Industrial Units Suspected To Be Pouring Poisonous Chemicals Into Drains, Rivers A Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) monitoring team caught three tankers carrying a hazardous chemical — Spent Acid — for illegal disposal near Gujcomasol on Vatva-Narol road. Even after strict directions from GPCB to not dispose more than 3,000MGL …
There has been no let-up in the burning of garbage across the city despite several concerns raised by activists about its adverse effects on the environment and the health of people. Civic officials in the past had promised action against the municipal workers burning solid waste. However, mounds of garbage …
This report was commissioned by the Global Health Workforce Alliance Secretariat and the World Health Organization to consolidate the latest information available on human resources for health and inform the global community on how to attain, sustain and accelerate progress on universal health coverage. It will be launched at the …
It is understood that most food or beverages sold in restaurants or stalls contain trace quantities of contaminants, but in the case of the piping hot cups of tea purchased from roadside vendors in the City, the drink may actually be bad for you. A series of investigations by Deccan …
Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad, assigned to conduct an environment impact study (EIS) on Goa's mining, has found high air pollution in the state's five mining talukas. It also found that the figure of 45 million tonnes of iron ore exports from Goa is too high and has decided …
The National Green Tribunal on Thursday held that developers of the popular Ambience Mall in south Delhi violated conditions on which they were granted green nod by changing the commercial area and said permitting it would seriously jeopardise the environment and public interest. The Tribunal directed the Ministry of Environment …
