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Toxins
Safe recipe
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2006
edibleoils may have a use outside the kitchen, too. A New Zealand scientist claims cooking oils like sunflower oil can replace the volatile, toxic solvents used to prepare antibiotics such as penicillin and several other industrially significant plant-based products.
South Asia
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2006
dhaka protests: Bangladesh recently lodged an official protest with India claiming that it had received much less water from the Ganga river than was agreed upon during the Farakka talks. Dhaka said it was receiving about 283 cubic metres per second (cu m/s) less water on average as compared to the water supply during 2005. This violated the 30-year water-sharing treaty between the two countries, it claimed.
In Court
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2006
toxic pool: The Local Area Environment Committee (LAEC) recently termed the Eloor and Edayar industrial belt in Kochi, Kerala, a "toxic hot spot" filled with heavy metals and pesticides. LAECrecently submitted an environmental audit report to the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee. It found the presence of heavy metals from samples collected from Eloor, Edayar and Kuzhikandam creek in the area. LAEC's study revealed that the presence of metals like iron, cadmium, manganese, nickel, copper and chlorides were in excess of the prescribed limits.
Biocontrol Backfires
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2006
Armies of venomous cane toads (Bufos marinus) threaten to overrun large parts of Australia, reports a recent study in the science journal, Nature (Volume 439, 707 A, February 2006).
Frying pan to fire
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2006
the United States Environmental Protection Agency (usepa) is in the process of replacing methyl bromide, an ozone-depleting fumigant, with methyl iodide, a highly toxic and carcinogenic chemical. The issue of replacement was open to public comment till February 21, 2006 and the final decision is expected in late March.
Spilling all over
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2005
A blast at one of the plants of the China National Petroleum Corporation, China's largest energy company, at Jilin city on November 13, 2005, caused a massive chemical spill and endangered around nine million lives.
Home sweet yuck
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2005
LAND is equal to real estate in Mumbai. Any land, even when poisoned. In Dahisar, Mumbai's northernmost
suburb, it is construction boom time, even by Mumbai's dizzying real estate standards. Sites for large residential
and commercial complexes are selling sooner than you can say buy. The USP: proximity to both the western express
@vibhavarshney E-waste from the West
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2005
A recent study conducted by Basel Action Network (ban), a us -based lobby group, found that around 500 containers packed with old computers, televisions and mobile phones were arriving every month in Lagos, Nigeria. These electronics come for repair and re-use but an estimated 75 per cent of it gets dumped at official landfill sites or by roadsides and in swamps.
