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

Rotterdam Convention: no new agenda for pesticides at chemical review panel meet

Signals under-utilisation of the subsidiary body of Rotterdam Convention

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

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

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

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