People's risk
Community-based risk assessment and abatement is a must in the age of expanding business opportunities
Righting the target
Clearer understanding of an enzyme's role could lead to pain killers with less acute side-effects
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 …
All gold and hellish litter
Beyond all that glittering in the congested streets of Calcutta's sex districts, is defiled environment and morbid health conditions
South Asia: A Trash Can?
It's time South Asian countries took Iaction to tackle the POP menace. To begin with, they should tell the West that South Asia is not a dirty …
Return of the smog
Experts believe that the smog which enveloped Indonesia last year may return to aggravate the economic crisis that has engulfed the country
Danger on the high seas
Environment groups say that Japan's impending shipment of plutonium poses a grave environmental threat
Caught in the Web
Is getting hooked to the Internet a distinct disorder or is it a symptom of other psychiatric illnesses?
The night the air turned poisonous
...the much-flouted crisis management system failed to activate itself, leaving the residents of Kardampuri colony in Delhi gasping for breath
Charges of poisoning
Using automobile batteries both Indian and foreign, Clandestine lead-smelting units near the Delhi border have played havoc with the health of …
The gassing of a village
A petroleum product factory continues to chug out its poison, despite a decade of protests and official ire
Waste pays
Minimising the production of waste in industries saves raw material and, because it reduces the quantity of pollutants, lowers the cost of …
Useful guide to industrial pollution
INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION IN JAPAN Editor : Jun Ui Publisher: United Nations University Press, 1992 Price not stated
Placebos are better
Reaching India's Poor: NGO Approaches to Community Health Edited by Saroj Pachauri Publisher: Sage Publications and Ford Foundation Price: Rs 325 (…
Research without change
Robert Repetto and Sanjay Baliga quote a number of studies carried out by Indians in India and abroad on the impact of pesticides on the immune …
Die hard
Identified a century ago and viciously attacked by pesticides and drugs, the Anopheles mosquito and the malarial parasite still survive to prey …
Endemic encounter
Some children appear to have received close to 100 rads. The radiation has mainly occurred from iodine 131, a radioactive form of iodine that is …
Mines and other killing devices
STATE OF ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN INDIAN COALFIELDS: COALFIELDS IN WEST BENGAL·Sunit Kumar Sarkar and Subhankar Sarkar·Oxford …
Deadly slip up
An adulterated cooking medium sparks off panic in India, but the government remains clueless on how to deal with the crisis
Will this one work?
If the first class action suit against tobacco companies in Florida is successful, the US tobacco industry is in trouble
Feeling the heat
The Justice department files a mammoth civil lawsuit against cigarette manufacturers in the US
Killer Ape
Another murderer comes to town. There is no dearth of Western murderers because our government lets them roam free
Customer be damned
A new report claims that cigarette manufacturers had the know-how to make cigarette smoking safer, but did not introduce them
Dumpyard
Hazardous materials from Taiwan were dumped in a village in Cambodia about a month ago. UnsuspeoAng villagers now complain of a host of diseases
Beyond the acceptance level
Children in the US suffer lower IQ levels even at acceptable levels of lead in the blood