In short

Hitler's minefield

Fertiliser use is. increasing fit developing world

Protest against plant near Tanzania's Lake Natron

Blast-off

India successfully tests the Agni II missile

PUERTO RICO

"Massive assault"

Vo Quy is semi-retired, but still officially heads the Center for Natural Resources Management and Environmental Studies at the University of …

Government’s April 1 gift to farmers

EU bill will bring 30,000 chemicals under the scanner

Iron power

Increases urea utilisation

Fertilizers acidify soils

Crop yield drops, plant biodiversity is impacted as a whole  

Dow Chemical to help Bhopal gas tragedy victims

In Court

EU's REACH regulation evokes controversy

A greenhouse gas 7,100 times more harmful than CO2 discovered

It is a manmade chemical used in electronic equipment industry

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

No laughing matter

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

Indore’s soil is malnourished

Vital nutrients missing: study 

Toxic legacy

Nitrate pollution in California could affect 260,000 people

Death at sea

Pollutants are killing whales near Mexico

Poison in the air

Mothballing nitrogen

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

Drug delivery pioneer Robert Langer receives engineering ‘Nobel’

Nearly two billion lives have been touched by his inventions