Green clean
Enzymes are the new, hip, ecof riendly detergent components
A little piece of Greenpeace
Where river runs black
Industries from far and near dump untreated toxic effluents near Ulhasnagar, choking a river and sickening people
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
Not learning from Bhopal
Rain lash
Four-hour deluge washed away not just crops but also soil from 5,000 hectares in Maharashtra. Experts warn of more such weather events. Is the …
Permanent
Cleaning up colour is almost impossible
Of biome blues
Burgeoning populations notwithstanding, humankind seems in danger of being wiped out. This is the inference one draws from Our Stolen Future , …
A cocktail of chemicals
...that's what New Bombay residents seem to be consuming daily, with thousands of chemical industries and lakhs of vehicles burping out …
Urine is no waste
Kullon village in Sweden shows how to use it as a fertiliser source
Green standards put india in the red
Several Western nations have decided to stipulate high environmental standards for the goods they import. The step demands the substitution of …
Blood on its hands
Industry in Asia's largest chemical unit zone is like a terrorist outfit, devastating the atmosphere and, reportedly, killing people
Chemical apocalypse
...And the government's knee-jerk reaction to a TRMS-NEERI study of hazards in the chemicals industry
A shredded project
After the proposed Nylon 6,6 plant in Goa was discussed threadbare and opposed by many, the Greens succeeded in having the project shifted out
Sewage power
Mumbai's Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers recycles sewage to run the cooling towers of its plants
Toxic waste: Who cares where it's dumped?
Self-reliance and export prospects have contributed to the rapid growth of the Indian chemical industry. But the distaff side of the boom is the …
Bloody waters
The colour of water in more than 10 villages in Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam district is red. Despite severe strictures from the courts, the industry …
Remedies
Government has to revise its policies. But it will have to learn from the civil society
Has lifting subsidies depressed fertiliser use?
A survey reveals that while using fertilisers, farmers are seldom guided by their price alone.
Fine print hassles
Chemical manufacturers shaken by India's signing POPs convention
The precarious geopolitics of phosphorous
Both nitrogen and phosphorous are essential to life. Lynchpins both to global food production, circulating through synthesis or export and then …
Chemical-free abundance
After years of killing his fields with pesticides and fertilisers, a sapota grower rediscovered cultivation without chemicals
Back in f(l)avour
Entry of high yielding hybrid rice has spelt doom for traditional diversity in the Konkan belt. Thanks to a science academy, the ancient legacy …
Looks like Basmati but
India is losing the pride of many a pulao -- the aroma and taste of basmati rice. What are scientists and legal experts fighting about?
Stinking for two decades
Industrial effluent is contaminating Gujarat villages, but the authorities have not nailed the culprits