Payback time

Rise in exports is at the cost of the environment

With the pollution-conscious West pushing large-scale production of toxic chemicals to India, the result is more exports and more environmental …

Strengthening the act

Amendments proposed to the Insecticides Act seek to give it more muscle and check the growth of spurious pesticides

NGT orders joint inspection of Tughlakabad container depot after chemical leak

The green court has also ordered assessment of the impacts of the leak 

Deadly increase

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Stir bears fruit

Stricter laws

EU plays safe

Proposed EU law has mixed implications for India

REACH constricted

No gas mask

Numerous factors, besides nearness to the Union Carbide plant, affected the victims of Bhopal gas tragedy

Destruction of marine life

In Court

Poisons we live with

Book>> What’s gotten into us? Staying healthy in a toxic world • by Mckay Jenkins, Random House • US $26

Has lifting subsidies depressed fertiliser use?

A survey reveals that while using fertilisers, farmers are seldom guided by their price alone.

Ban proposed

Fatally fixated

Home sweet yuck

Apartments mushroom on contaminated industrial sites

Self-control for EU chemical industry

The regulations governing the European Union's chemical industry are set to undergo a drastic change, with special emphasis being laid on self-…

Fine print hassles

Chemical manufacturers shaken by India's signing POPs convention

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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 …

Fuelling a crisis

Revised urea policy rekindles debate on just allocation of cleaner fuels

Membrane made out of clay and tea waste can clean toxic effluents

The newly developed membrane has good thermal and chemical stabilities

Chemical-free abundance

After years of killing his fields with pesticides and fertilisers, a sapota grower rediscovered cultivation without chemicals