Pest attacks on rise across India, yet no discussion on spurious pesticides

As allegedly fake pesticides prove ineffective in controlling pests, farmers resort to indiscriminate spraying

Pretty hazardous

The way of all waste

Environmentalists and developingcountries managed to stave off an attempt to sabotage the Basel Ban on international trade in hazardous …

The can-conned

Asia, be ware!

Base oversight

Chemical weapons on the pyre

The US is facing strong opposition to its plans to incinerate chemical weapons

Air losing self-cleaning ability

Recent studies indicate increasing pollution may be hampering the atmosphere's inherent cleansing abilty

Paying for the North's "eco-dumping"

Trapping pollutants

A new material could soon be used to remove pollutants from toxic wastes

An industrialised business

Erin Brockovich II

Tsunami-swept worries

No teeth

Killer industries

Government- industrialist nexus and public apathy have become incentives for norm-flounting industries in Gujarat

TURMOIL OVER TOXICS

Energy reclamation

HAZARDOUS WASTE INCINERATION Edited by Calvin Brunner Tata McGraw-Hill Ltd

SOUTH PACIFIC

Standards of waste

A chance to waste

Political parties want the government of India to ratify the Basel ban on import of hazardous waste

On the banned wagon

The European Union will now refrain from exporting hazardous wastes to developing countries

Boxful of toxins

THAILAND

Dissolving dioxin

Book review: Toxicity

The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future By Bruce E Johansen (Praeger Publishers, 2003)