Worship now, repent later

Do Indian festivals have to be as polluting as they are at present?

Dissolving dioxin

Toxic Tales

We should be worried

Mother could be passing on toxins through breast milk

Raipur: the most polluted city

Unplanned industrialisation is its major undoing

Toxic receipt

India's inspection team says Danish ship safe

Frying pan to fire

US environment agency cool with chemicals

Silent famine: What exactly changed in India’s wheat and rice?

The crops gained quantity but lost quality in the quest to feed India’s millions

World Cancer Day: 'Toxins in the environment are a major problem'

With the rise in the number of cancer cases reported in India every year, prevention and affordable treatment will become critical in battling …

These toxic metals make Diwali firecrackers 'beautiful'

From tremors, weakness, anxiety, shortness of breath to paralysis and cancer, the colours in Diwali firecrackers all have a toxic source

Where reducing waste improved quality

A simple waste minimisation technique at an electroplating plant in Delhi improved the quality of its plating and saved the unit Rs 60,000 annually.

Book review: Toxicity

The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future By Bruce E Johansen (Praeger Publishers, 2003)

We the regulators

Dow in the dumps?

According to report

Experiments with established truth

A hurried job

Karnataka government’s survey to estimate the scale of endosulfan tragedy is a half-hearted attempt

Watch before you eat

Air pollution contributes to heavy metals in vegetables

Science & Technology - Briefs

Pesticide ban lands Kerala in court

Cardamom planters, pesticide makers against the ban

Love's labour

The traditional dishes that pregnant women eat for centuries

Genetically modified food

Mercurial problem

Too much of mercury causes infertility in men. And it can also come in the fish you eat

No sweat

POPs talk

A meeting to eliminate persistent organic pollutants throws up more questions than answers