Another Kasaragod

Like Kerala’s Kasaragod, neighbouring Dakshina Kannada is bearing the brunt of spraying of endosulfan. While Kasaragod grabbed media …

Residue standards for organic food is a step in the right direction:CSE

FSSAI's new regulations for residue standards to certify food as organic is in alignment with international best practices 

Alphonso’s last call?

The world’s best mango is perishing in coastal Maharashtra, which grows most of the crop. The culprits are climate change and unsustainable …

Farmers in tech trap

Cotton cultivators are on a seed and pesticide treadmill that is draining them of traditional skills  

We found to our horror

By regulation, the soft drink industry must use "potable" water. But what's that? Who ensures municipalities meet standards? What …

Why environmental degradation is a big health risk

Down To Earth and Centre for Science and Environment jointly release Body Burden 2015, an annual health report

Prominent Indian tea brands contain pesticides: Greenpeace

Study finds 67 per cent of tested samples of packed tea leaves contained banned pesticide DDT; some samples had acutely poisonous monocrotophos

Keeping cancer alive

Punjab has been in the grip of cancer for over a decade but the government has ignored the threat. Sonal Matharu reports with photographer …

Into the ginger trap

Farmers from Kerala make big bucks by growing ginger in Karnataka but leave behind a trail of pollution

Supreme Court reminder to FSSAI on monitoring pesticides in food commodities

Non-profit Centre for Science and Environment says food regulatory body should also periodically test packaged and processed food, including soft …

Contaminating millets

There is disquiet over government scheme to wean traditional millet farmers on chemical inputs

GE cotton: Three states refuse NOC for field trials

GEAC demands Telangana, Gujarat state reasons for declining, will take decision if Maharashtra doesn't reply on time

Kidney conundrum

A mysterious chronic kidney disease is afflicting a large number of people in India and Sri Lanka. Despite decades of studies, scientists are …

We have robbed the soil of its nutrients

P N TAKKAR former director of the Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal, and currently principal scientist at the Indian Agricultural Research …

Idea of farmer wisdom is relentlessly manipulated

As a visiting American academic, Glenn Davis Stone has put in over 60 weeks of field research on the impact of Bt cotton on farmers in Andhra …

Technology needs stewardship

Keshav Raj Kranthi, an entomologist by training, is director of the Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur. He has developed an extensive …

Simply Put: Insect apocalypse

Silent fields: a cocktail of pesticides is stunting bumblebee colonies across Europe, study shows

The pollen that bumblebees collected and stored in their nests was contaminated with multiple pesticides, an average of eight different compounds …

Pesticide Management Bill 2020: What could have made it better

The bill was introduced after much delay

64% of world’s arable land at risk of pesticide pollution: Study

Asia home to largest land areas at high risk of pesticide pollution

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Court penalises Vision Organics for supplying spurious pesticides in MP

This is first-of-its-kind case in Madhya Pradesh where farmers approached court and won

Pests behind Codex standards

Swearing by them is nothing more than laziness and deception of regulators

Yavatmal farmers fight losing battle against pesticide poisoning; pin hopes on Swiss court hearing

There has been an inordinate delay in enacting the Pesticides Management Bill to replace the Insecticides Act of 1968

Simply put: Why pesticide