Heavy metals in cosmetics: government silent on tightening rules

After Rajya Sabha MP raises concerns, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad cites rules but says little about protecting consumers

Kharif crops take a severe hit by intense and unprecedented rainfall across India

IMD advises farmers to drain maize fields, delay sowing paddy in several states  

India’s Minamata

Singrauli, the powerhouse of India with massive coal reserves and many thermal power plants, should have been prosperous. But it is poor and …

Monsoon 2020: Rains advance over Peninsular India from June 1-7

India received 70% more rains during this week than it usually does at this time  

Heavy metals in cosmetics

Chandra Bhushan, deputy director general at Centre for Science and Environment talks about the growing cosmetic industry and the presence of …

Angry Vidarbha farmers vote for BJP

Congress loses its bastion for failing to implement poverty alleviation schemes and inadequate disaster relief for farmers in distress

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 20, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Heavy metals in household, industrial waste help spread drug resistance

Researchers have identified exposure to cadmium a reason for typhoid causing Salmonella becoming resistant to antibiotics

Climate impacts in Angola: Green harvests to be slightly below average, shows analysis

The late and varied pattern of rain is negatively affecting crop growth in Angola, report notes

Let off for now

Newmont claims pollution case in Indonesia withdrawn

Magnet turns detector

Measure of the soil’s remanence can quantify pollution  

Ferns: heavy metal guzzlers

Can replace expensive methods of controlling pollution

Hard facts

Heavy metal

Label heavy metal

Herbal products for exports will have carry additional info

New role for cadmium

In algal enzyme

Herbal fright

But drug manufacturers say concerns are misplaced

Mercury is now traceable

KENYA

Too close for comfort

Arsenic fixer identified

Knocking off the plant gene could check arsenic poisoning

Peel potential

Bananas can filter heavy metals from water

Flight to nowhere

Poisoned food

People in Pakistan are consuming vegetables contaminated with heavy metals, says a study

Keep off!

Uranium-rich Meghalaya tells mining PSU