Well-oiled racket

Two incidents of illegal handling of waste oil have come to light recently, underscoring the fact that trade in the hazardous product continues …

Global call to manage nitrogen

Science is a disqualifier

Pollution control boards remain hot seats for babus

Foreign concern

India can't care about hazardous imports; the world must

In court

At Alang again

This time it's an Iranian ship

Sweet torture

Menace at work

Death on its agenda

An expert team report exposes highly dangerous pollution inflicted by a chemical plant on the environment of Sayala in Gujarat

SHUT DOWN

Occupational hazard

At a Gujarat chemicals factory, workers have holes in their noses. Apathy of the owner is to blame

Dumpyard

Hazardous materials from Taiwan were dumped in a village in Cambodia about a month ago. UnsuspeoAng villagers now complain of a host of diseases

Treating hospital waste

No bric-a-bracs

Bricks can be made with 30 per cent sewage sludge

Scrap from Russia is cheaper

So Pakistani shipbreakers accept hazardous warships

The protection racket

Fine for a firm

Delhi, throught a ;mist of nostalgia

AIR, WATER, garbage, radon toxicity, sludge, noise. More than a part of our daily lives, these are perennial if hackneyed jargon. Few people …

All that is bad

ends up in Africa? A suspect consignment reaches the shores of Kenya riling the natives

Lethal cargo

For cleaner air

IN FOCUS

Norms for coal mines

Space scrap

Dumping defects

Landfill sites linked to birth defects