Can faith heal?

Billed as the largest gathering of humanity in recorded history, Maha Kumbh has commenced in Allahabad. Over the next few weeks, pilgrims will …

Up in arms

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

Russia's nightmare

Thousands of chemical weapons, once abandoned by the military, are coming back to haunt Russia

Microbes are always smarter

Brickfields closed

It's official now

Nutrient paradox

Fertilisers upsetting natural nitrogen, phosphorous flow

Mining woes

Arsenic eyes rice nutrients

The heavy metal can disrupt amino acid synthesis in the grain

Heavy damage

Tribals take on polluters

Sponge iron unit poisons their drinking water¤ farms

Get us water

Oil’s crude touch in Gujarat

ONGC’s oilfields are ruining farms in Gujarat

Goa village wins compensation for fields scarred by mining

Wrap it right

Pine oleoresin coating can cut nutrient pollution by urea

Dow Chemical asked to clean up contaminated sites in the US

Arsenic killer

Industry pollutants in river kills cattle and fishes in Bihar

Drug unit to shut

It polluted three Raigad villages for 30 years

Mumbai suburbs gets a landfill site for hazardous waste

Kanjumarg will aggravate Mumbai's waste crisis