Air pollution grave threat to babies’ brains: UNICEF

Top seven things you should know about this debilitating problem

NEW GUINEA

Poisonous bird

HONG KONG

Kangaroos in jeopardy

The increasing demand for kangaroo meat threatens this marsupial native to Australia

Dropping dioxin limits

Peru

THAILAND

The Indian reality

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

Toxic threat

Highly carcinogenic, dioxins trigger life-threatening diseases

Blowing the lid

The Emmy Awards for Outstanding Investigative Journalism

Toxic hybrid

GM crops are unsafe, right?

Too close for comfort

Polluted justice

Wipro in net

Charged with illegal e-waste disposal

South Asia

How bees can monitor pollution for us — everything from toxic metals to antimicrobial resistance

Honey bees can reveal patterns of contamination that might otherwise go unnoticed.  

Long-term impacts of lead exposure have finally been revealed

Lead exposure not only reduces IQ levels and lower socio-economic status, it costs India US $236 billion annually

Science and Technology - Briefs

Science and Technology - Briefs

Joint committee favours endosulfan exports

Cites lack of pesticide disposal facility

India softens its stand on endosulfan

Endosulfan: meet in Geneva begins, India still in denial

Sharad Pawar says many states had asked him not to ban the pesticide

‘PESTICIDES’ IN DRUGS

Sharad Pawar’s provision for protecting test data in the Pesticides Bill could spill over into trade agreements and hit the drugs industry, too

Good, bad or worse?

Researchers are not sure if aliminium is a friend or foe

European Commission comes out with draft policy on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs)

Policy defines EDCs and lays out basis for legislation on them