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India’s first rock check dam opens in Ladakh: Watch breathtaking blue paradise photos and video of Indus water at 11,000 feetLadakh has launched India's first rock check dam on the Indus River. This innovative structure uses riverbed stones to slow water flow and ...- Why battery recycling units across India are harmful for children and pregnant womenA new study by Toxics Link reveals alarming lead contamination in soil surrounding battery recycling units across India, with levels signif...
- Scientists warn over new forever acid in rain: All you need to know about itGlobal rainfall is increasingly contaminated with trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a persistent chemical raising concerns among scientists and r...
- Bihar sends groundwater samples for testing amid worries about high uranium concentrationBihas has sent groundwater samples collected from Nalanda, Nawada, Katihar, Madhepura, Vaishali, Supaul, Aurangabad, Gaya, Saran and Jehana...
- IIT Kharagpur's AI study finds 20 per cent of India has toxic levels of arsenic in groundwaterAccording to the researchers, the findings suggest a much greater extent of the high arsenic zones and total population exposed than alread...
- Across India, high levels of toxins in groundwaterApart from nitrate contamination, the presence of fluoride, iron, arsenic and heavy metals has also touched worrying levels.
- 32 yrs on, toxic waste still lying in Union Carbide factory: ActivistsGas leakage from Union Carbide, which made pesticides, on the night of December 2-3, 1984, left more than 3,000 people dead and many more i...
- New grasses eat up all RDX from ground, keep air healthyNew York, Nov 27 (IANS) A group of US engineers has developed two types of transgenic grass species that can eliminate toxic compounds wide...
- Bhopal gas tragedy: NGO Sambhavna Trust raises concern over congenital defects in kidsOver 3,000 people were believed to have died in the Bhopal gas leak tragedy that took place on the night of December 2-3, 1984.
- Groundwater turning toxic with sewageThe recent spate of moderate to heavy rains in the city may have boosted the groundwater levels by at least half a metre, but a new report ...
- Landfill in Faridabad hills will make NCR aquifers toxicThe Haryana government may end up destroying the water recharge zone for Delhi NCR if it goes ahead with its plan of landfilling quarry pit...
- Sea of trash pollutes water, air in DelhiPeople living close to some of Delhi’s landfills are routinely exposed to extremely polluted air and those drinking groundwater from the ar...
- Bengaluru to get top-end lab for water testing soonThe planned facility in Jayanagar 4th T Block will be housed in a four story building that will meet the standards laid down by the NABL.
- UCIL site contamination a threatMadhya Pradesh government had asked Hyderabad-based Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) to focus on dismantling of abandoned Uni...
- SC seeks toxicity report of Bhopal groundwaterThe first-ever official test to find out toxicity level in groundwater around Bhopal’s Union Carbide plant since the leak of poisonous gas ...
- Scientists from Netherland discuss selenium contamination in Punjab soilA two-member delegation from Netherland visited the Punjab Agricultural University for exploring the possibility of collaborative research ...
- 'Cell phone waste, the next big threat to environment'Sporting a new mobile phone may be fashionable in these well-connected times, but the discarded old handsets could poison the environment, ...
- Cell phone waste, the next big threat to environment: DeloitteSporting a new mobile phone may be fashionable in these well-connected times, but the discarded old handsets could poison the environment, ...
- US lawmakers ask Dow to clean up BhopalAs many as 27 US lawmakers have asked Dow Chemical Company, which now owns Union Carbide, to immediately take steps towards providing medic...
- High-tech industry contaminating riversGreenpeace has released a study on environmental pollution during the manufacture of electronic products.
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