Friends of the river

Clearing the Ganga, is their mission even if it means fishing out scores of bodies from the river

Friends for a cause

A matter of costs

In a poor country, cost-effectiveness has to be the byword for municipal wastewater treatment. And the upward anaerobic sludge blanket …

Bringing the basics to a neglected slum

An NGO is helping residents of a Kanpur slum to get amenities like drinking water, latrines and medical care

A miserable place to live

Kanpur's residents breathe polluted air and drink water of dismal quality, but do nothing

Why Ganga Action Plan is a pipe dream

The scientist as a babu

Indian Railways' experimentation with eco-friendly toilets

Out of breath

After visiting hospitals and slums VIBHA VARSHNEY has found that asthma makes poor children suffer far more than their rich counterparts. And a …

Rs 67 crore later

...In Kanpur's Jajmau area, chromium enters food chain. How spent is the Ganga Action Plan?

What a waste

Solid waste management plant that won Kanpur an award raises a stink

Tangible shift

Bioprocessing - the Indian leather industry braces itself for an environmental facelift

Prime achievement

100 per cent accurate computer algorithm to identify prime numbers

Not all green is healthy

Waiting to be cleaned

A treatment for AIDS

The US recognises an Ayurvedic treatment that can help combat AIDS

Time to clean up?

An ecologically informed master plan for Kanpur may help the city deal with pollution

Promises kept and not kept

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Barrage of sewage

Kanpur will have a Rs 412.44 crore Ganga drain by 2031

Culprit iron in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's

A holiday in bad air

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The Menace Within

Project to review the impact of indoor air pollution

Smog envelops India's smaller cities

A recent release from the Central Pollution Control Board, Parivesh, January 2003, presents deadly facts about air pollution levels in Indian …

Hope or hype?

Guarded optimism greets new biomedical waste treatment facility near Kanpur

Frequency check

Frequency-based methods can improve noise-control laws