Face your fears

Food allergy dictates eating low doses of the very food daily  

A jab back

Digging deep into muck

Film>> The World According to Monsanto • directed by Marie-Monique Robin

Konkan village rejects mining plan

Officials say villagers are not final arbiters

"The North is driven by the industry"

Christine von Weizsaecker is a senior microbiologist based in Wuppertal, Germany and the vice-president of Ecoropa, the premier European …

Shroud for a crusader

For 35 years, Adhurai fought against Grasim Industries for polluting the environment in his village in Kerala. No one heard him. But after he …

Chemical catastrophe

Pesticides can render birds sterile. Migratory birds can lose sense of direction. The recent history of the world is full of many such examples ess

Americans want low-cost, quality health care

Hillary Rodham Clinton, head of the US President's task force on health, has a tough task ahead in providing Americans with low-cost, quality …

Incinerator in Ohio ignites controversy

While US vice-president Al Gore cast his lot with the anti-incinerator, industry greens, residents of East Liverpool, Ohio, got together to …

Steel manufacturer in the dock

Prompted by protests, the Maharashtra government is considering action against a steel manufacturing unit for causing water pollution.

Within the enemy

Humankind faces the most prolonged and worst exposure to pollution within the four walls of its homes - indoors - where biomass combustion spells …

On air

Angry residents of Delhi flooded the chief minister's office with phone calls to protest against the withdrawal of a ban on polluting vehicles

Diesel vs Cars Environment

Diesel vehicles still have a long way to go as far as controlling particulate emissions is concerned and at the current level of technology …

Are some humans more equal?

A recent study suggests that poor nations will have to do with more arsenic in water. A rebuttal by the arsenic and medical group, School of …

"Clean air can save many lives"

CARTER BRANDON an environmental economist in the environment and natural resources division of the World Bank (WB), has done considerable work …

The ideal gap

A two-and-a-half-year gap is ideal between births for the health of the babies

Fighting cancer

Poison in the air

Disposal of medical waste

Thar desert faces threat

Bad environment kills

A new study seeks to link pollutants to the spread of prostate cancer

Nine times unlucky

A little piece of Greenpeace

The Marlboro people

Sao Paulo