Sponge iron industries are killing fields

The sponge iron industry is growing fast and polluting alarmingly. K Radhika in Chhattisgarh and Maureen Nandini Mitra in Jharkhand and Orissa …

Pollution glorified

World Bank arm finances polluting steel mill in Jharkhand

Lessons from London

How cities can improve mobility

Pollution: the great leveller

Bare acts, no action

Killing the high-end killer

Don't give up the fight

Cars, more cars

Diesel: when bad policy makes for toxic hell

"Intelligent" adulteration

The road from Stockholm to Rio

It was the Stockholm conference, held exactly 20 years ago, which put environmental issues on the global agenda for the first time. But the …

Give us today our daily threat

The wheeze squeeze

Asthma is silently strangulating humankind, and controlling air pollution could be the most effective way of combating it

Devil in the diesel

How India is getting gas and coal policy wrong

Search for a good hearth

While cook stoves in India are becoming fuel-efficient, they are not improving air quality, finds study

Too much at stake

Green justice: up in smoke?

Aided by officialdom and politicos, polluting industries seem well cushioned against thunderous court orders

The stink of onions

Making space for emissions

The challenge of the chulha

Today's profits, tomorrow's losses

Ecological economics attempts to evaluate the environmental and other external costs that a society pays to produce a commodity

Smoke laws first enacted in city of joy

Because of its political importance in the British empire, Calcutta was one of the first cities to regulate smoke emissions. But legislation …

Toxic city