Healing festering wounds

An action plan is ready to decontaminate UCILÔÇÖs plant site in Bhopal. It just needs to be implemented

Protest against Haripur nuclear plant in West Bengal

Chella Krishnamurthy, 57, murdered

Making India's mining sector socially and environmentally viable

A government committee wants regime change to facilitate private investment in mining. What it is oblivious to is the need for more regulation to …

E-waste posing health risks for workers in scrapyards

Stinking for two decades

Industrial effluent is contaminating Gujarat villages, but the authorities have not nailed the culprits

Steeled up

Unable to bear pollution any longer, people in Kotdwar force Uttarakhand to commission an independent assessment of steel factories in the region

Interstate dirty dumpers

Industrial units illegally dump hazardous waste in remote fields, often crossing state borders, to dodge the law and cut costs. ravleen kaur …

Pollution glorified

World Bank arm finances polluting steel mill in Jharkhand

Goa's mining problems

What China is doing to Goa

Not learning from Bhopal

Stink of India's steel frame

When battered people took on the pesticide industry

Chaos in the iron age

After iron ore plunder in Bellary and Goa comes a Supreme Court order that adds confusion to chaos

International dump yard

Ship breaking thrives in South Asia because of weak laws

No one is cleaning up

25 years on, thousands of tonnes of hazardous waste is scattered around the Union Carbide factory

Into the ginger trap

Farmers from Kerala make big bucks by growing ginger in Karnataka but leave behind a trail of pollution

Up in arms

Too high a price

Unwitting subjects to a 1954 nuclear experiment, the former inhabitants of a Pacific atoll continue to suffer

Slippery turf

Magnet turns detector

Measure of the soil’s remanence can quantify pollution  

Hi-tech control

Forest fires aid in the spread of mercury in soil

Active threat