Speak up!
As Brazil's energy industry undergoes an overhaul, consumers must take a more active role in protecting public goods
Ford: Looking backward
To coincide with Ford's centenary celebrations in Dearborn, Michigan, the us environmental group Sierra Club is planning to run an advertising …
Orbital correction
Beginning 1975, ISRO has been involved in several indigenous space utilisation initiatives. We take a close look at two of them, Edusat and the …
Young states push for growth, ignore environment
The relatively younger states in India are making a big push for industrialisation. In the process, they are eating into fertile agricultural land,…
Substandard
The ExcusesSugar: Companies say there are pesticides in sugar. They want a study on how much and standards to be set on the raw material and not …
Dyeing it green
ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVES OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY: SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL IMPERATIVES S B Chandalia and R Rajagopal Publisher: Sevak …
The return of leather weather
THE WORLD'S LEATHER AND LEATEHR PRODUCTS INDUSTRY: A STUDY OF PRODUCTION, TRADE PATTERNS AND FUTURE TRENDS by Robert H Ballance, Ghislain Robyn …
Dhaka to give drug policy a free-market dose
Under pressure from transnationals, the Bangladesh government is likely to ease restrictions on producing and importing medicines.
De-hairing hide without polluting
Clarizyme is a new biodegradedable enzyme produced by the Central Leather Research Institute in Madras as a replacement for substances used in …
GATTing drugs, not getting them
The latest durg price control order will boost the MNCs and deprive the common consumer by damaging the small scale sector
A cocktail of chemicals
...that's what New Bombay residents seem to be consuming daily, with thousands of chemical industries and lakhs of vehicles burping out …
Success is a mindgame
A memory drug developed by Indian scientists could hold the key to a ultimillion dollar global market
Artisans the untold story
Despair and devastation stare India's artisans in their face, as resource crunch, modern civilisation and government apathy combine in an …
War and ecology
NATO strikes on chemical plants and refineries around Belgrade could lead to an ecological disaster, warn Serb officials
What a mess
Should the people of South Africa be denied medicines because they are too poor to pay for them?
Dyeing cotton fabrics is an ancient Indian art
Indian textiles formed an important item in the trade network, the major thrust being on cotton fabrics in vibrant kalamkari patterns. Mastery …
When will India be able to control pollution ?
Not till the middle of the 21st century. So be prepared to leave your children behind in a living hell. Unless you are prepared to browbeat …
Dyeing cities
Textile mills of Pali district in Rajasthan and Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu have an annual turnover of over Rs 20,000 crore. But the rivers passing …
The small big polluter
Resource crunch and poor regulatory processes have made small-scale industries the pariahs of India's environment
Weaving trouble
Kashmir's handmade pashmina shawls have long been threatened by power looms outside the state. The problem has now spread within
A reprieve for the paper industry
Jute fibre, which could provide a solution to the increasing crisis in procuring wood pulp, could be science's gift to the paper industry.
Waste pays
Minimising the production of waste in industries saves raw material and, because it reduces the quantity of pollutants, lowers the cost of …
Court curbs Ganga polluters in Bihar, Bengal
Sugar and paper mills in Bihar and tanneries in West Bengal have been penalised by the Supreme Court for continuing to discharge untreated waste …
New role for earthworms as sewage cleaners
A Pune-based research institute has developed a process that employs earthworms to remove impurities from waste water.
Subterranean subterfuge
Thousands of industrial units in parts of Haryana are clandestinely discarding untreated effluents into aquifers, irreversibly damaging groundwater.