Exporting e-xposure

The US ships out highly toxic electronic waste to Asian countries

How Baddi pharma waste can make your medicines ineffective

The waste contains active ingredients used in antibiotics and may be contributing to the spread of antimicrobial resistance. It is time to …

Coastal invasion

Oil waste litters Gujarat seafront

Oil firm in dock

Ivory Coast sued Trafigura for dumping toxic waste

We created a new material from orange peel that can clean up mercury pollution: researchers

When researchers combined two industrial waste products, they created a material that could clean up mercury

River flowing through the most polluted Russian city turns red

Russian authorities assume that water has reddened due to chemical waste discharged from the nearby Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant

Kali Nadi is poisoned

It carries Meerut’s industrial waste, sewage and carcasses  

Waste manager dumps it in river

Gujarat firm gets closure notice for stealthily disposing of untreated hazardous waste

Green tribunal orders enquiry on Jodhpur industrial sludge

About 10,000 odd industries in and around the city are dumping waste in river tributary, alleges petition

Hills of greyville

Fast-expanding steel industry yet to find an effective way to reuse its waste product, slag

Death factories: industries at MIDC Dombivli are ticking time bombs

Blasts destroyed a chemical factory in Dombivli in the Thane district of Maharashtra on May 26, killing 12. Here's the inside story …

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लंबे समय तक अपशिष्ट जल से सिंचाई करने पर कानपुर के कई इला…

Stink in the leather belt

Calcutta Leather Complex has shifted from the heart of the city to the outskirts on Supreme Court order, but it fails to treat toxic effluent and …

Ratlam’s toxic legacy

Hazardous waste kept in shut factories continues to contaminate groundwater

Await the Indian Love Canal

Coal toll

More than 70 per cent of India's electricity is produced by coal-fired power plants. Most of them do not have modern technologies and use low-…

Showing industry its place

An environment-related atlas will determine the future sites for industries

CREP: a review

Has industry become environmentally responsible?

Digging out trouble

Potent sleuths

In Taiwan, citizens turn pollution detectives

Polluted Periyar River needs to be restored on priority: CPCB report

Eloor-Edyaar area has been selected as one of the priority sites needing immediate restoration

Dirty move

The move to exempt certain categories of industry from a public hearing is anything but laudable

Indian asbestos workers want life

Unbearable!

Polar bears in Arctic are suffering due to industrial chemicals

Chemicals flow free in Gujarat

Where the floods meet the chemical badlands: an Ankleshwar factory