To safeguard the living beings from the effects of chemicals and radioactive substances careful measures should be taken in direction of disposal of the waste. The radioactive substances should be…

Ocean dumping is the practice of dumping all sorts of garbage in the oceanic waters. Industrial waste reigns supreme in this process, since the oceans provide a convenient out-of-sight, out-of-mind way to get rid of the junk that industries churn out …

Though there are many causes of pollution that are widely discussed, one threat to the environment that is not given much attention is the threat of nuclear waste.Nuclear waste has many sources that are divided into two categories….

USA with a population of 300 million contributes to 25% of the green house gas emissions of the world, as against India with a population of more than a 1000 million contributing less than 20%. This is the reason why India has been exempted…

As mankind strives for more and more progress at an exponentially high growth, the debate over the credibility of nuclear power generation at the cost of the hazardous wastes it generates and its disposal, still lingers on. Having been an…

In the search for the last oil and gas reserves on the planet, both environment and democracy are under pressure. Some countries have developed strategies to tap these last few resources even in places they never had rights …

Let us begin on a sarcastic note, in the words of George Carlin:“Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticide grain, for strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain.Dear Earth, man sheds his waste on thee,and hides the pines with…

A large mushroom cloud hovering stealthily over barren land is the image that comes to a layman’s mind when the word “nuclear” is mentioned, and with good reason too, as to date the hydrogen bomb explosion in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II…

Glory and Joy! India’s journey towards a civil nuclear program seems all set to start rolling. Amidst all this celebration, I wish to ask a simple question: is India equipped to handle the operations? In December 2006, uranium tailings spread into the river Subarnarekha, forcing local villagers to hold a blockade against the spill…

We humans –God’s gift to nature – have a right to live a life, which is free from destruction, devastation and bloodshed. Nuclear weapons symbolize mass destruction that ends up shattering the lives of thousands of people…