Lessons from COVID-19 on reducing India's environmental pollution

We can tackle our pollution problems by emulating approaches adopted to successfully tackle COVID-19

मालवा की मानव निर्मित मौत

मालवा के जल संसाधनों पर ग्रहण उस समय लगा जब बांधों की श्रृंखला में गांधीसागर बांध शामिल हुआ। यहां के भूजल भंडारों का स्तर ...

Using tannery waste in fields turning soil toxic: study

Researchers studied soil and groundwater samples from farms irrigated by tannery effluents in and around Kanpur city in Uttar Pradesh

Subterranean Leak

The CSE tests had found high levels of groundwater and soil contamination in and around the Union Carbide factory

Microplastics on agricultural lands may threaten farm productivity: study

Between 110,000 and 730,000 tonnes of microplastics are transferred to agricultural soils in Europe and North America every year

Battle over oil, coal & forests

Cost of marble

Mining in Rajasthan's Rishab Dev tehsil, the only place in the country that produces green marble, registered 6,681 times growth in 14 years. But …

Kerala gets cautious

Plans to ban extremely and moderately hazardous pesticides in cardamom district, Idukki

Lost in plantation

Millions of growers and workers are in distress in Kerala, the plantation capital of India, as domestic and international prices of cash crops …

A revolution gone awry

Easy access to agro-chemicals in Sri Lanka blamed for public health scare

War over waste

People of Bengaluru pitch a battle against civic body which has neglected mounting piles of garbage

Subterranean Leak

25 years after the gas leak, another tragedy is unfolding in Bhopal. CSE tests reveal the water and soil in and around the Union Carbide factory …

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 …

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 …

Letters

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

Microbial carriers

Microorganisms can enhance the movement of carcinogenic hydrocarbons in soil, making them degrade at a quicker rate

Russia's nightmare

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

Microbes are always smarter