An artistic documentation of the awful trail of human misery left behind by the horrific Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, has been 'barred' from public screening since 1985, thanks to 'reservations' by the Madhya Pradesh government.
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, finds a link between PM 2.5 air pollution at levels considered safe by the EPA and the deaths of 200,000 veterans over a recent decade.
New research suggests air pollution at any concentration is harmful and that even levels below national and international guidelines are associated with an increased risk of death.
MSHA issued the request for comment following an NPR/PBS Frontline investigation that found the agency had failed to adequately protect miners despite knowing that silica dust was contributing to an epidemic of black lung disease.
Scotland's health secretary has stopped short of placing the crisis-hit Glasgow health board on special measures after revelations about the deaths of two children who were treated on a ward affected by water contamination.
The history of influenza as a global disease is inextricably tied to steamships and the expansion of world trade. A war demonstrated how big a pandemic could get.
Two people have died as the highest water levels for more than 50 years caused hundreds of millions of euros of possibly irreparable damage in Venice, with another surge expected to cause further flooding.
Pollutants such as nitrogen oxides, ozone, sulphur dioxide and particulates are responsible for an estimated 7,700 premature deaths in Canada each year.
"Beekeeping has been something I've done for all my life. It's one of those things that gets in your blood and once it's in your blood, it's hard to shake it."
Researchers say federal agencies use highly inaccurate tests to estimate exposure to BPA—findings that extend to multiple other harmful chemicals that get into our bodies
