Hussain Sagar goes to toxic waste

Five years on, no progress on project to clean 16th century lake

BYTES

In Short

Change is in the process

Parking poison

Coal-based plants spew mercury

Coal politics in an unequal world

US sets mercury emission limits

India still far from setting standards for toxic pollutants from power plants

Mercury takes the shine off CFLs

Lower watt lamps use more mercury for extra glow, says study

Science and Technology - Briefs

Industry evades responsibility for heavy metals in cosmetics

Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) has refused to accept that their products have toxins

DANGER zone

If no action is taken soon, a major ecological disaster is waiting to strike Panipat

Science and Technology - Briefs

Free the air of mercury

Newly launched Minamata Convention weak on mercury released by thermal power plants

In Brief

Bytes

MoEF drags feet over law for safe disposal of CFLs

Reasons for prolonged delay unknown

Unchecked

Industry flouts weak regulations at will

Unsettling

What the Centre and the state government did to rehabilitate victims

Serving the symptom

The government still does not know what still afflicts people in Bhopal

Foul Debris

The UCIL plant is still a health hazard

News 360° - Briefs

Industry sets the rules to dispose of CFLs safely

Proposes pilot project for collecting, recycling CFLs in three cities

Science and Technology - Briefs

Japanese council members protest serving of dolphin meat in schools

Mind the mercury

Why no one is checking how mercury-laden CFLs are handled and discarded