Handy test to detect mercury

A new kit to detect contamination in fish

Salted solutions

Ionic salts hold promise as ecofriendly solvents

Cat out of the bag

First observed evidence of long-term effects of GHG emissions

Deadly ozone

Supplanting petrol

Biofuel is efficient but its environmental benefits are marginal

It is never too late

Arsenic in groundwater

Ashes to ashes

...or raw materials for the industries?

Whale of a Problem

Whale meat contains mercury and PCBs, says a new study

Treating distillery wastes

Up in smoke

Did fires caused by the Aborigines drive creatures larger than humans to extinction?

Poisonous rats

Birds and mammals are dying after eating rodents which have consumed rodenticides

Dolphins return

Under the weather

Scientists say a change in temperature could play a role in spreading childhood diarrhoea

A red alert

Phytoplankton bloom along the Indian coast threatens marine life

Modified by climate

Global warming has resulted in genetic alternations among living beings

In hot water

GHGs raise ocean temperatures

Double trouble

A deadly moth and a fly create havoc

Your drinking water spiked

Poor performance

Of arsenic removal plants in West Bengal

Exhaustive predicament

Nitrogen dioxide is proving a dificult vehicular emission to control

Sterile charge

Lead exposure causes infertility in men

Plastic busters

A bacteria and a fungus make a formidable pair

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Crime and pollution