UN gives MNCs a clean chit

A recent United Nations report absolves multinationals of the environmentalists' charge of shifting ecologically harmful industries to the South. …

Should free trade include toxic dumping?

Many European nations have banned the free passage of toxic waste between borders, despite the common-market concept.

The Wasted Earth

Waste has become a global problem, and is demanding curative technologies that require almost preternatural efficiency to execute. And that keep …

A matter of the mind

Mind-body medicine: in the realm of the possible but wholly inexplicable, this loose curative system has more takers every day

Death by virtual world

Documentary>>Citizens at Risk, How Electronic Waste is Poisoning the Path out of Poverty for India's Recyclers Produced by IMAK and Chintan

The blind Court

This is a story of justice denied. On February 13, 1996, the Supreme Court, the highest seat of justice in the country, ruled that five units …

No one's controlling mercury

Just dump it

Acids of arsenic. Organo-mercury compounds. Batteries. Bristles of boars or hogs. More potent stuff: asbestos; slag dross; ash and residues of …

Too hot to handle

India has tightened guidelines for storage of toxic industrial waste. But is it enough?

Plastic pollution in Nigeria: whose job is it to clean up the mess?

Nigeria’s rivers, lakes and ocean are also full of discarded plastic

No ban on single-use plastics, to be phased out by 2022

Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterates a commitment that India made last year

Good, bad or worse?

Researchers are not sure if aliminium is a friend or foe

UNITED NATIONS

Auction for wastes

A Commission appointed by the Supreme Court recommends the auctioning of hazardous wastes

Justice at last

J&K government shuts down polluting stone-crushing units

FOLLOW UP

Kept at bay

Global call to manage nitrogen

Science is a disqualifier

Pollution control boards remain hot seats for babus

Foreign concern

India can't care about hazardous imports; the world must

In court

At Alang again

This time it's an Iranian ship

Our little mushroom clouds

Rage over waste

A village asks Bengaluru civic body to shut illegal landfill

Life of Plastic: Uruguay talks inch towards last two days; final decision still awaited

Win for wastepickers as voluntary body formed to ensure they are heard; member states now in the process of preparing final international legally …