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WHO Regional Workshop on Chemical Safety
24 - 26th June 2013
The International Workshop to Strengthen Capacities for Sound Chemicals Management in South-East Asia Region
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3876. January 16, 2013 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Cropland Expansion Increases Biodiversity Loss, Says New Report, Kenya
Support for Sustainable Agriculture and Better Land Use Planning Can Avoid Future Losses, While Meeting Food Demand... 3877. January 15, 2013 | Telegraph
Warning over toxic toys, UK
Children’s dolls containing a poisonous chemical have been sold to families in the West Midlands... 3878. January 15, 2013 | Boston Herald
BU building reopens after chemical spill, USA
A life sciences building on the Boston University campus has reopened after a graduate student working in a laboratory spilled a liter of an industrial solvent, prompting a brief evacuation today but causing no injuries, fire department officials said... 3879. January 15, 2013 | brightsurf.com
Fetal exposure to PVC plastic chemical linked to obesity in offspring, USA
UCI study identifies transgenerational effects of obesogen compound tributyltin... 3880. January 15, 2013 | Environmental Health News
In Bangladesh, skin heals when arsenic exposure declines, Bangladesh
Skin lesions become less severe and heal over time if exposure to arsenic in drinking water is reduced, reports a study from Bangladesh... 3881. January 14, 2013 | BBC
Beijing's hazardous pollution sparks Chinese media anger, China
Chinese media have reacted strongly to dangerous levels of pollution recorded in many northern cities in recent days... 3882. January 14, 2013 | ArabNews
Biofuels cause pollution, not as green as thought, Norway
OSLO: Green schemes to fight climate change by producing more bio-fuels could actually worsen a little-known type of air pollution and cause almost 1,400 premature deaths a year in Europe by 2020, a study showed... 3883. January 14, 2013 | China Daily
Beijing moves to curb prolonged haze pollution, China
BEIJING - Choked in dense smog for three consecutive days, Beijing started emergency response measures on Sunday to curb the air pollution at hazardous levels... 3884. January 14, 2013 | The Daily Star
Farmers at 8 villages opt for chemical free veg, Pakistan
Over a hundred farmer families at eight villages of Sadar upazila have grown chemical free vegetables by using earthworm compost fertiliser in their lands... 3885. January 13, 2013 | baltimoresun.com
Coal-ash pollution at three Maryland landfills to be cleaned up, USA
The operator of three coal-fired power plants in Maryland has agreed to pay a total of $2.2 million in penalties and fix long-standing pollution problems at the landfills in Southern Maryland... 3886. January 13, 2013 | The Hindu
Bhogi pollution to be monitored, India
Air quality levels in 15 locations, including innewly-added areas, will be checked... 3887. January 13, 2013 | The Independent
Made in Britain: The toxic lead used in fuel sold to world's poorest, UK
A British company convicted of bribing foreign officials to maintain sales of a poisonous lead fuel additive is continuing to sell the chemical abroad to unstable countries... 3888. January 13, 2013 | UPI
Chemical leak pollutes Shanghai, China
SHANGHAI, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Authorities said improper loading at a port in Shanghai has resulted in a petrochemical leak... 3889. January 13, 2013 | San Jose Mercury News
Chemical smell sickens 13 at San Jose Hilton, USA
SAN JOSE -- Thirteen guests and staff members were sickened Sunday by fumes from an unknown chemical on the 18th floor of the Hilton Hotel, but ultimately no one was hospitalized, a fire official said... 3890. January 13, 2013 | The Asahi Shimbun
Survey checks radioactive contamination in the Pacific, Japan
TOKYO--The Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami reminded us of the terrible damage the sea is capable of inflicting. But what about the damage caused to the sea by the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant... 3891. January 13, 2013 | Pitttsburgh Post-Gazette
Too hot to handle: The danger of climate change is cause to sweat, USA
Mother Nature is trying to tell us something and every passing year her message becomes more urgent. That is the takeaway from the news that 2012 was the hottest year in the history of the contiguous United States... 3892. January 13, 2013 | The Fresno Bee
Kettleman City reaps toxic harvest of Calif. castoffs, USA
KETTLEMAN CITY -- Maria Saucedo cried as she spoke of the two babies she has lost in Kettleman City -- one to birth defects and the other in a miscarriage... 3893. January 13, 2013 | Pitttsburgh Post-Gazette
Environmental groups criticize proposed pollution limits on engines used in gas drilling, USA
Pennsylvania is considering new air pollution limits for diesel- and natural gas-powered engines used in Marcellus Shale development that are stricter than those that exist now but, according to eight environmental groups, not nearly as tough as they could and should be... 3894. January 13, 2013 | NYTime.com
Breathing in Beijing: Coping With China’s Smog, China
BEIJING — With Beijing’s air pollution soaring to seemingly new, awful records this weekend, the classic parenting dilemma of “What shall we do with the kids?” had a grimly obvious answer: Slap on the antipollution face masks and go shopping for another air purifier... 3895. January 13, 2013 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Remarks by Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UNEP, at the Fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to Prepare a Global Legally Binding Instrument on Mercury, UNEP
The task is to finalize a mercury instrument and provide an international response to a notorious heavy metal whose impacts on human health North and South, East and West are well known and well documented... 3896. January 12, 2013 | New Hampshire
High pollution levels prompt health warnings for Keene area, UK
CONCORD — For the second time in five days, the state Department of Environmental Services is warning residents of southwestern New Hampshire that air pollution concentrations may reach unhealthy levels... 3897. January 12, 2013 | SFGate
Turning over new leaf in climate change, USA
In a tidy white lab on the southern edge of Berkeley, scientists are trying to duplicate one of nature's greatest tricks, pulling energy out of thin air... 3898. January 11, 2013 | Newa24
Pollution deadly in Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hong Kong - Hong Kong's name may mean "fragrant harbour", but cargo ships burning dirty fuel in what is one of the world's busiest ports add to a foul layer of pollution that kills more than 3 000 people a year... 3899. January 11, 2013 | ThisDay Live
FG Orders Return of Toxic Waste to UK, UK
The Federal Government has ordered that the toxic waste laden containers on board MV Marivia Monrovia be shipped back to the port of origin in the U.K... 3900. January 11, 2013 | The Peninsula
High gold price worsens health damage from toxic mercury: UN, Norway
OSLO: High gold prices are driving up the use of toxic mercury in small-scale mining in developing nations, spreading a poison that can cause brain damage in children thousands of miles away, a UN study showed yesterday...
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