Vietnam

Chemical companies with a shady past

A burning problem

The foot-and-mouth scare assumes alarming proportions in the UK

Alang's toxic yard

Behind the scene

Dioxins are extremely persistent and all pervasive. Yet its politics tries to undermine the danger

More skeletons tumble out

Dioxin scare

Spreads in European countries

The Indian reality

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

Internationally infamous

Toxic threat

Highly carcinogenic, dioxins trigger life-threatening diseases

Burn baby burn

The use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam war maimed US soldiers as well. A first hand account

Attack aftermath

WTC wreckage releases chemicals

Bitter sweet mess

Exposure to dioxins may lead to diabetes

Landfill emissions poison breastmilk

After finding high levels of dioxin-related compounds in breast milk of women living near landfills, a Vadodara-based non-governmental …

Foul feed

Living on the edge

Local pollution linked to birth defects

Dioxins toned down

Burning problem

Biomonitoring breastmilk

In april this year, California became the first us state to introduce a bill to biomonitor breast milk. Activists and researchers hope that once …

Is TN wasting its energy?

Molecules of death

Dioxins, which are by-products of industrial processes, are not volatile and are extremely persistent chemicals. They bioaccumulate up the food …

Dying fish

Plasma process to treat US chemical waste

Playing with waste

Toxic mall

Instead of curtailing use of plastics, the Delhi government sets up a new market