Persistent organic pollutants can render vaccines ineffective

Untangling India’s Bt cotton fraud

ICAR’s top research institutes and GEAC exposed in Bt cotton research scam

E coli outbreak in EU

India alerts ports that receive fruits, vegetables from Europe

Taste of toxicity

New study reiterates the adverse effects of chlorpyrifos pesticide

Crisis staved off

Best way to check arsenic residues in rice

In Court

Punjab chief justice against pesticides

DNA tests for identifying beef: Should we shift our focus to meat safety instead?

Testing cooked meat may be challenging since heat degrades DNA

You may be drinking tiny pieces of plastic with bottled water

A study says that 93% of bottled water contains microplastics

Recycled food waste may be contaminated with pharma residues but mushroom cultivation may come to rescue

Biogas digestate from food waste had nearly as many pharmaceutical residues as digestate from sewage sludge, new study shows

Toxic heavy metals found in indigenous people living near oil fields of Peruvian Amazon: Study

High levels of mercury, cadmium & arsenic were found in the urine samples of people living river basins of Corrientes, Pastaza, Tigre & …

A paper sensor that can detect freshness of milk

IIT Guwahati scientists develop a new detection kit that could make testing freshness of milk easy and fast

How bees can monitor pollution for us — everything from toxic metals to antimicrobial resistance

Honey bees can reveal patterns of contamination that might otherwise go unnoticed.  

Uranium contamination in Punjab could be due to geological processes: study

The latest study argues that uranium leaching from the Himalayan granite rocks has possibly contaminated Punjab's groundwater

Climate change-induced flooding may put at least 327 contaminated sites in US at risk

Nearly two million people live within a mile of 327 Superfund sites, which are vulnerable to sea-level rise due to climate change

An unholy dip and a holy Satyagrah

An extract from 'Faecal Attraction', a film on the political economy of shit in India -here's an interview with a scientist cum priest from …

Ramadoss does a turnaround on cola controversy

Legally modified

Government plans for GM food labelling in India

Russia bans rice imports from India claiming pesticide contamination

In short

Creating indomitable superbugs

Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat

Toxic harvest

Eating rice grown in arsenic-contaminated water can damage genes

Whale of a Problem

Whale meat contains mercury and PCBs, says a new study

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: How poor regulation threatens aquaculture

There are no regulations or institutional setup for freshwater aquaculture