The bite that wasn't

Research on snake venom and mongooses could lead to more effective anti-venom drugs

Sharing the losses

TAIWAN

Another Alang in the making

Andhra Pradesh is in choppy waters over a proposed ship breaking yard at Vodarevu

Mercury-laced food

Sun, sea and snow bring mercury down to the Earth and in the food

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Letters

Letter

Home sweet yuck

Apartments mushroom on contaminated industrial sites

Colour display

Using microbes to detect metals in effluents

Pretence of safety

Study reveals that a new herbicide, Roundup, is also toxic

New process to minimise chemical, energy use in making leather

Gujarat industries under scrutiny

Court asks government to ascertain workers’ safety

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Foul delight

Chicken laced with arsenic

202 new industrial chemicals

Spoilt for choice

Are cheap food prices reason to cheer?

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Dow Chemical asked to clean up contaminated sites in the US

Deadly compound

Now, even babies are being exposed to the cancer-causing dioxin

Hazardous mobile air toxins in the air

Domestic wastewater as fish food

US scientists engineer stem cells capable of killing cancer

cells killed cancer cells by secreting toxins, without harming healthy cells

Elusive cause