No laughing matter

West blames rising nitrous oxide levels for future depletion of northern mid-latitude ozone

Hot pursuit

Export bite forces a plan to promote residue-free chilli

A glut of nitrogen

Indore’s soil is malnourished

Vital nutrients missing: study 

Rising population can increase emergence of infectious diseases: Study

Projected growth in global population will push for more food production, which will make the agriculture sector use more chemicals and resort to …

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

No laughing matter

A large reservoir of nitrous oxide, a potential greenhouse gas, has been discovered near India's west coast

Toxic legacy

Nitrate pollution in California could affect 260,000 people

Death at sea

Pollutants are killing whales near Mexico

‘Solid, liquid waste may have overtaken fertilisers as the biggest source of N2O emissions’

Nandula Raghuram, chair of International Nitrogen Initiative, talks to DTE on the rise in nitrous oxide emissions, its repurcussions and …

Don't bite that apple!

The government's plans for boosting horticulture to earn foreign exchange do not take into account the hidden costs of deforestation, fertiliser …

Mothballing nitrogen

Some now ways of using fortilisers which will prevent nitrogen seepage into the water table

Green Revolution’s hidden toll

Diabetes, obesity, malaria, Japanese Encephalitis and more

Fertilizer subsidy fuelling food shortage

Pesticides, food additives and scientific lies

Calculated Risks: The toxicity and human health risks of chemicals in our environment Joseph V Rodricks . Publisher: Cambridge University Press, …

Nutrient paradox

Fertilisers upsetting natural nitrogen, phosphorous flow

Sulphur deficiency in Madhya Pradesh soil leads to poor harvest

Push for neem-based fertilisers

Climate is changing, and the Sundarban residents can feel it

The Sundarban delta region in the Bay of Bengal, with 10,000 square kilometres of estuarine mangrove forest and 102 islands, is the world's …

Nitrogen turns sour

Rising levels of nitrogen in soils are increasing global warming

But where's the data?

Back to the future

Fertiliser’s true climate impact

Empirical estimates of nitrous oxide levels in environment made

Farmers quit mentha

Overexploitation of water leaves very little for farming

Chemical-intensive farming good for soil?