Science and Technology - Briefs

Patronising dirty technology

Delhi municipality constructs yet another waste-to-energy plant at Ghazipur

Cigarettes with additives pollute air more: study

Fifteen chemicals increased by 20 per cent or more in air with the cigarettes

Weak rules, weaker regulators

Factories flout emission standards at will

Brain dead

When pencils and paints lead to lower IQ

Junk life

Fast food and slow death

Tropic of cancer

Childhood cancer rates in India are increasing by six per cent every year

Ecological disaster looms large over Lebanon

California wildfires

Biofuel good idea, bad practice

Ranbaxy accused of not following court orders

Cars off the road in Italy

Trams back in fashion

Brief

What's happening inside disposal units?

News 360° - Briefs

Straw in the wind

The dirty dozens

Five southeast countries team up to fight Indonesian haze

Bottled water costs us the earth

US relaxes emission norms for ethanol plants

UK government comes up with a Code for Sustainable Homes

German cities ban dirty vehicles

‘Short-lived climate pollutants more lethal than greenhouse gases’

Black carbon has claimed 1.15 million lives across the world

India to develop fuel economy standards