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WHO Regional Workshop on Chemical Safety
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April 7, 2011 | ScienceDaily
Vehicle Pollution Significantly Damages Mouse Brain, USA
If mice commuted, their brains might find it progressively harder to navigate the maze of Los Angeles freeways. A new study reveals that after short-term exposure to vehicle pollution, mice showed significant brain damage -- including signs associated with memory loss and Alzheimer's disease...
April 6, 2011 | UNEP
Media Advisory: UNSCEAR launches reports in runup to anniversary of Chernobyl Accident, UNSCEAR
Journalists are invited to attend a press briefing on two reports, Radiation exposures in accidents and Effects on non-human biota to be published by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR)...
April 6, 2011 | BBC
Fourteen die after eating toxic sardines in Madagascar, Africa
At least 14 people have died in Madagascar after eating toxic sardines...
April 6, 2011 | WAtoday.com.au
Toxic leak plugged, Japan
TOKYO. Workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant fixed a leak yesterday that was allowing radioactive water to spill into the sea...
April 6, 2011 | ABC News
Toxic caesium found in fish off Japan, Japan
Traces of radioactive caesium have been found for the first time in fish off Japan's east coast...
April 6, 2011 | ABC News
Toxic fish found near Japanese reactor, Japan
The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant says it has detected 7.5 million times the legal limit of radioactive iodine in seawater near the facility...
April 6, 2011 | EurekAlert!
Common nanoparticles found to be highly toxic to Arctic ecosystem, Arctic
Queen's researchers have discovered that nanoparticles, which are now present in everything from socks to salad dressing and suntan lotion, may have irreparably damaging effects on soil systems and the environment...
April 6, 2011 | The Times of India (TOI)
Air pollution worse than 2010, India
CHANDIGARH: The city seems to be paying a price for its enviable green cover, especially the exotic trees, as pollen emanating from...
April 5, 2011 | UNEP
World Plugs-In to New Renewables Agency, The United Arab Emirates
Renewable energy was given a boost with the opening of the first General Assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) which opened in Abu Dhabi on Monday...
April 5, 2011 | UNEP
UNEP and Environment Agency of Abu Dhabi meet to discuss cooperation and partnership, The United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi, 5 April 2011. UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner met today with the Secretary General of the Environmental Agency of Abu Dhabi H.E. Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak to discuss cooperation...
April 5, 2011 | The Independent
Study reveals how bees reject 'toxic' pesticides, UK
Bees can detect pesticide residues in the pollen they bring back to the hive and try to isolate it from the rest of the colony, the American government's leading bee scientist revealed in London yesterday...
April 5, 2011 | The Japan Times
Tepco dumps toxic water into sea, Japan
Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Monday began releasing 10,000 tons of low-level radioactive water from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Monday evening to help accelerate the process of bringing the crippled complex under control...
April 5, 2011 | Indian Express
Poisonous chemical formaldehyde linked to origin of life on Earth, USA
New research suggests that the poisonous chemical formaldehyde may have helped create the organic compounds present in the universe that gave rise to life...
April 4, 2011 | Japan Today
TEPCO uses colored powder to try and pin down source of seawater pollution, Japan
TOKYO — Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) used colored powder Monday to trace the source of highly radioactive water leaking into the sea near the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, while mulling the use of silt-barriers in the sea to prevent the further spread of radiation...
April 4, 2011 | IOL.co.za
Japan releases toxic water into ocean, Japan
Tokyo - Japan has asked nuclear superpower Russia to send a special radiation treatment ship used to decommission nuclear submarines as it fights to contain the world's worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl, Japanese media said late on Monday...
April 4, 2011 | Deutsche Welle
Six months on, chemical spill still haunts Hungary, Hungary
On October 4, 2010, an alumina plant at Ajka, Hungary, 160 kilometers (99 miles) outside Budapest unleashed a torrent of toxic red sludge in a wave reaching up to two meters deep...
April 4, 2011 | New Vision Online
Lake pollution blamed for high water prices, Africa
THE increasing water pollution around Lake Victoria has affected the cost of production and hence the rise in water prices...
April 3, 2011 | The Los Angeles Times
After Japan disaster, disposing of waste creates dilemmas, Japan
After the quake and tsunami, Japan faces legal, financial, logistical, environmental and ethical questions on dealing with debris — from ships and smashed cars to waterlogged heirlooms and soiled family photos...
April 3, 2011 | The Independent
More than one in 10 nuclear power plants at risk from earthquakes, Japan
Scores of nuclear power plants worldwide are at risk from tsunamis or earthquakes similar to the natural disasters that crippled Japan's Fukushima reactors, according to new research...
April 3, 2011 | The Sydney Morning Herald
Organised crime linked to hazardous waste scourge, Australia
ORGANISED criminals linked to bikie gangs are among rogue dumpers who have infiltrated the waste disposal industry and are scattering hazardous waste across Sydney...
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