Face your fears

Food allergy dictates eating low doses of the very food daily  

A jab back

Digging deep into muck

Film>> The World According to Monsanto • directed by Marie-Monique Robin

Konkan village rejects mining plan

Officials say villagers are not final arbiters

"The North is driven by the industry"

Christine von Weizsaecker is a senior microbiologist based in Wuppertal, Germany and the vice-president of Ecoropa, the premier European …

Americans want low-cost, quality health care

Hillary Rodham Clinton, head of the US President's task force on health, has a tough task ahead in providing Americans with low-cost, quality …

Incinerator in Ohio ignites controversy

While US vice-president Al Gore cast his lot with the anti-incinerator, industry greens, residents of East Liverpool, Ohio, got together to …

Steel manufacturer in the dock

Prompted by protests, the Maharashtra government is considering action against a steel manufacturing unit for causing water pollution.

Within the enemy

Humankind faces the most prolonged and worst exposure to pollution within the four walls of its homes - indoors - where biomass combustion spells …

On air

Angry residents of Delhi flooded the chief minister's office with phone calls to protest against the withdrawal of a ban on polluting vehicles

Diesel vs Cars Environment

Diesel vehicles still have a long way to go as far as controlling particulate emissions is concerned and at the current level of technology …

Shroud for a crusader

For 35 years, Adhurai fought against Grasim Industries for polluting the environment in his village in Kerala. No one heard him. But after he …

Chemical catastrophe

Pesticides can render birds sterile. Migratory birds can lose sense of direction. The recent history of the world is full of many such examples ess

Are some humans more equal?

A recent study suggests that poor nations will have to do with more arsenic in water. A rebuttal by the arsenic and medical group, School of …

"Clean air can save many lives"

CARTER BRANDON an environmental economist in the environment and natural resources division of the World Bank (WB), has done considerable work …

Nine times unlucky

A little piece of Greenpeace

The Marlboro people

Sao Paulo

Smog havoc

Unquiet flows the Chaliyar

Duration: 33 minutes Directed by Sridevi Mohan

Audit of industry

Appetite for danger

Jobs involving hazardous chemicals actually select people with the appropriate genes

Chile choked

Pollution forces authorities to impose strict measures in Chile

Talks on toxins