Victims of Bhopal gas tragedy continue to suffer damage in their DNA: new study

 An increase in chromosomal aberrations was seen even in those who were not exposed or moderately exposed to the gas, shows the study 

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, …

Indian research can help cut nitrogen fertiliser waste

Indian scientists manage to identify phenotypes, visibly identifiable features that determine the efficiency with which cultivars use nitrogen

Bovine TB: culling of badgers less effective strategy for controlling disease

New study suggests that testing cattle is more effective

Nutrient paradox

Fertilisers upsetting natural nitrogen, phosphorous flow

We still have to reach the interiors

W Selvamurthy, senior scientist at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), shrugs off the body’s responsibility towards …

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 …

Trio win Nobel Prize for computer modelling of chemical reactions

Models evolved by Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel could help optimise solar cells, catalysts in vehicles and even drugs

Nitrogen turns sour

Rising levels of nitrogen in soils are increasing global warming

But where's the data?

Back to the future

The gas game

Fluorocarbons, which created a hole in the ozone layer, have generated intense global debates. But these have been more about business than …

Court postpones hearing against Dow Chemical for the 37th time

Court yet to initiate criminal liability case against the multinational company in the Bhopal gas leak case; charge-sheet was filed in 1987

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?

With a trace of Molybdenum

Promoting millets: the wheel need not be reinvented

New policy could be detrimental to millet farming

Wrap it right

Pine oleoresin coating can cut nutrient pollution by urea

Depleted uranium in Bosnia's water

GM blues

Controversy dogs Bt cotton clearance as debate over transgenics continues

Biofuels more dangerous than fossil fuels

Orange tumbles

Nagpur orange’s survival hinges precariously on its return to sustainable cultivation. Farmers have woken up to this, but will the government?