SC notices on Bhopal gas disaster compensation

Issues notices to Union Carbide, Dow Chemicals on Centre's plea seeking enhancement in compensation 

‘We plan to make public transport more convenient’

Sheila Dikshit of the Congress party has been the chief minister of Delhi for three consecutive terms. She is in the fray to win the seat a …

‘Short-lived climate pollutants more lethal than greenhouse gases’

Black carbon has claimed 1.15 million lives across the world

World Water Week discusses green options to manage water resources

Municipality in South Africa awarded for water and sanitation work

India to develop fuel economy standards

North-west India may face frequent droughts: World Bank

Organisation’s climate change report predicts decrease in crop yield by 10-30 per cent as world warms by 2°C

Dow Chemical to help Bhopal gas tragedy victims

Countries launch measures to curb greenhouse gases more potent than CO2

A five-step action plan will target pollutants like methane and black carbon

US Case - In Court

Gamble for guar, soy

Despite demand and production, farmers lose to futures trading

Outrage

Ken Saro-Wiwa died because he had dared to assert the Ogonis'claims to their In Nigeria, the giant wheels of progress have been leaving a …

14 Years Later..

...there's a Bhopal waiting to happen in the nooks and corners of the country. But the government is yet to take the right steps to ensure the …

A pedestrian view

The new fuels leave vehicle-owners with little choice

Descent of man

The troubling aspect is that religious fundamentalism encourages the rejection of modern scientific thinking

Miles to go

Is the government serious about introducing compressed natural gas (CNG) as a standard fuel for Delhi's vehicles? Have adequate steps been taken …

Years of agony

Fuels for the future

Despite being clean, alternative fuels fail to become the first choice

Justice remains mirage for Bhopal gas victims

Nearly eight years after the Bhopal gas disaster, the legal battle over a settlement continues. But for the efforts of public interest agencies …

Bush discards green

US President George Bush calls for a steep hike in the production of oil, gas, coal and nuclear energy and drilling for oil and gas in Alaska

India’s power mess

Solar energy could be the silver bullet

Bhopal remembered, Bhopal forgotten

New laws Were written

But how sharp are the teeth?  

The poison piles up

Ten winters since methyl isocyanate exhaled history's deadliest industrial disaster on Bhopal, action on toxicity remains agonisingly inadequate. …

Operation Clean-up

Gom recommends rs 300 crore  

The chemistry of living death