Fine print hassles

Chemical manufacturers shaken by India's signing POPs convention

Households top Irish dioxin emitters' list

Ignorance is low IQ, cancer

PCBs, dioxins write the fate of people living near a dumpsite

Dow Chemical asked to clean up contaminated sites in the US

Karachi's garbage plans

Tamil Nadu minister backs Cauvery polluter

In Short

Memories of Agent Orange

SC agrees to subsidise five waste-to-energy plants

Plastic shakeout

Centre proposes a ban on non-recyclable plastic. How prepared is India to implement it?

Bengaluru's burning issue

The city finally wakes up to waste management, but bumbles into incineration plants

Not a cakewalk

Bottlenecks and hassles confront the Indian organic producers

EU bans Indian guar gum

Patronising dirty technology

Delhi municipality constructs yet another waste-to-energy plant at Ghazipur

Brain dead

When pencils and paints lead to lower IQ

Junk life

Fast food and slow death

Tropic of cancer

Childhood cancer rates in India are increasing by six per cent every year

Ranbaxy accused of not following court orders

What's happening inside disposal units?

News 360°- Briefs

Science & Technology - Briefs

Behind the scene

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

Burn baby burn

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

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 …

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 …