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  • The Wound That Won’t Heal: Idaho’s Far-Reaching Phosphate Pollution

    While the pollution at the FMC site rivals the story in the movie Erin Brockovich, the story of phosphate in Idaho actually has a much wider reach, spanning the entire Phosphoria Formation that lies underground across western Idaho, southwestern Montana, western Wyoming and northern Utah. Deposited by an ancient shallow sea, the deposits have yielded […]

  • Fluoridation Chemicals

    The fluoride chemicals used to fluoridate drinking water are: fluorosilicic acid, sodium fluorosilicate, and sodium fluoride. Unlike the fluoride compounds found in toothpaste or supplements, fluoridation chemicals are not pharmaceutical grade quality. They are, instead, unpurified industrial by-products that are collected in the air pollution control systems of certain industries. Due to the lack of […]

  • Dire Pollution in Central Asia

    The problems of multiple polluting incidents hit many nations, but when that is combined with desertification and a reduced water supply, it really needs careful monitoring. UNICEF have been responsible for many examples of aid to the countries of Central Asia. The Japanese government have helped them in funding Aral Sea areas with water purification […]

  • Sterlite’s pollution problem

    On March 23, Tuticorin residents woke up to itchy eyes, burning throat and breathing trouble. As they suffered an unusual morning, they first thought it was a gas leak, and then, rumours spread that it was “because of Sterlite”. Sterlite Industries, a part of London-based Vedanta Resources, runs India’s biggest copper smelter in the region. […]

  • Perils of developing too fast: Brazil’s case study of pollution

    Cubatao, Brazil – A visitor’s first impression of this town 20 miles southeast of Sao Paulo is smoke. It hovers in soup-thick clouds – of fluoride gas, sulfur dioxide, ammonia, and carbon monoxide – that often blot out the sun for days. The next thing the visitor notices is the stench, a suffocating smell of […]

  • Hamilton: Airport cleanup put on federal agenda

    Ontario Environment Minister Jim Bradley has stepped into the fray over who should clean up Hamilton’s contaminated airport. A consultant has spent the year studying perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) pollution and cleanup options at the city-owned airport, where firefighting foam laced with the chemical was used in training 30 years ago. But city council and the […]

  • Odisha: NEERI report on industrial pollution soon

    BHUBANESWAR: The National Environmental Engineering Research Institution (NEERI), which conducts research and development programmes in environmental science and technology, is likely to submit its final report on industrial pollution in Jharsuguda and Sambalpur on August 21. The NEERI conducted a survey last year and in its draft report to Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) […]

  • UP in trouble for not checking ground water pollution

    LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh government may be headed for troubled waters over failure to curb extensive ground water contamination in the Singrauli area of Sonbhadra. Despite orders from the principal bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in New Delhi, the state government has not, so far, submitted a compliance report before the bench, with details […]

  • Tumor outbreak reported in Dongming, pollution blamed

    Tens of thousands of residents in Dongming county, Shandong Province, allegedly suffer from thyroid tumors because of industrial pollution, a discovery that has resulted in Premier Wen Jiabao ordering an investigation into the claims. Zhang Lixiang, administrative supervisor of the Shandong health department, told the Global Times yesterday that officials with the provincial departments of […]

  • Probiotic alleviate fluoride-induced memory impairment by reconstructing gut microbiota in mice.

    1. Introduction Fluoride is a widespread environmental pollution, and groundwater is the major source of exposure in which the fluoride concentration can be as high as 35 ppm (Petrone et al., 2013). Fluorosis induced by geological origin is a serious public health concern in 28 nations particularly in India and China (Rafique et al., 2015). In […]