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Do not breathe easy on the silicosis prevention policy

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The Government must make haste to prevent a killer disease that claims thousands of workers’ lives each year

Doctors and the Internet step in against the dangerous #CrateChallenge

Divya Kala Bhavani

Beat police told to check for illegal chemical units

Special Correspondent

Experts suggest long-term health assessment of gas leak victims

Special Correspondent

Morning digest: Health Ministry issues new guidelines for workplaces; 3 lakh evacuated as Amphan hurtles towards Bengal coast, and more

The Hindu Net Desk

Watch | Gas leak in Visakhapatnam

Concern over reckless movement of hazardous materials

College students to spread awareness about air pollution

Researchers and students of Vijaya College found that at least seven heavy metals, most of them toxic, are being absorbed from the air by birds, animals and people.
Karnataka

Heavy metals adding to air pollution woes in Bengaluru

Staff Reporter

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Firefighters spray around the ammonia tanker that overturned in Chicalim village on Friday.

Goa village evacuated after ammonia gas leak

PTI

Construction banned near Uttarakhand glaciers

toxic air: “Minor reductions in pollution do not reduce health risks significantly.” A mother and child protesting against air pollution in New Delhi.

For a breath of fresh air

“Outdoor air and indoor air are different subjects.” Photo: Special Arrangement

Do air purifiers keep out pollution?

Erik Solheim, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), speaks during the official opening of the 28th meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Kigali on October 13, 2016.Envoys from nearly 200 nations are in the Rwandan capital to thrash out an agreement to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Halting the use of HFCs also found in aerosols and foam insulation is crucial to meeting the goals to curb the rise of global temperatures agreed in a historic accord signed in Paris last year. / AFP PHOTO / CYRIL NDEGEYA

India to ban release of potent greenhouse gas

Fungi show green way to recycle batteries

Scientists Sathees Raghavan (left) and Robin Sebastian working at an IISc lab in Bengaluru. Photo: Special Arrangement

Endosulfan causes DNA damage in animals: Study

Violation of the ban imposed by KSPCB can attract a penalty of Rs.10,000 and even imprisonment. PHOTO: P.K. BADIGER

Ban on PoP Ganesh idols opposed

A STEP TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY: Gauri and Krishnan Subramanian. Photo; G. Moorthy

Manjappai makes a comeback

A. Shrikumar
ECO FRIEDNLY: Towards making markets greener. Photo: R. Ashok

Did you remember your cloth bag?

Soma Basu
CHENNAI, 20/08/2010:Illegaly Imported Electronic Waste ( E-waste ) seized by Directorate of Revenue Intelligence ( DRI ) in a Container that belongs to Corporation of India Ltd, Tiruvotriyur in Chennai on August 20, 2010. Photo:M.Karunakaran

India fifth largest producer of e-waste: study

PTI
A worker sorting e-waste at a newly inaugrated collection center at Vile parle, Mumbai. Photo: Vijay Bate

Onus on manufacturers, retailers to ‘scientifically’ recycle e-waste

Jacob Koshy
Preparations on in full swing for the World Cultural Festival, to be held on the Yamuna floodplains in New Delhi. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma

After Rs. 5 crore fine, nod for Sri Sri event

Bindu Shajan Perappadan
Hindustan Unilever's clinical thermometer factory in Kodaikanal hills. The factory was shut down in 2001 by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Contorl Board after revelations that the company leaked mercury into Pambar Shola Forest Reserve for 17 years. Photo: G. Karthikeyan

Kodaikanal mercury poisoning: HUL, ex-staff sign settlement 

Sureshkumar

Locals eating radioactive food 30 years after Chernobyl: Greenpeace tests

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