A ray of hope for leprosy patients

Two groups of Indian scientists have developed anti-leprosy vaccines that they claim are also effective in helping victims recover.

Kovvada nuclear power plant will displace about 8,000 people

Andhra government declares five villages in Srikakulam district as project affected

Simply Put: 75 years of Hiroshima

Japan earthquake triggers Fukushima meltdown fear

The US Geological Survey measured the earthquake at 6.9, down from an initial 7.3

Will there be gas at the end of it?

Iran-Pakistan (and US) pipeline politics

Supreme Court declines to stay fuel loading in Kudankulam nuclear plant

Agrees to examine risks associated with the project

The nuke bazaar calls

An open nuclear industry would hardly indicate that India hasachieved desired safety levels

Floating nuclear plant

Hazardous decision

Fat men and little boys

Atomic arsenals and the state of nuclear power play today

‘The difference between Chernobyl and Fukushima wildlife is the wolf is extinct in Japan’

Down To Earth speaks to James Smith from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom about the proliferation of wildlife in the two …

Authorities move a step closer to mining the Aravallis for uranium

After traces of uranium and other mineral deposits were found in the mountain range in preliminary findings, a second phase of survey is being …

Explosion at nuclear plant in northern France injures at least five

The explosion took place in the engine room of the plant owned by a French energy giant Électricité de France

Poison leak

The recent radioactive water leak in Tarapur has caused a furore and caught the authorities by their neck

High court stays land acquisition for Kovvada nuclear power plant

Petitioner alleges violation of norms, demands land acquisition should be permitted only after environmental clearances are secured

Supreme Court petitioned to stall proposed nuclear plants

Former bureaucrats, scientists,  say government pushing dangerous nuclear power programme without assessing safety or comparing cost with …

Of mountains & ozone holes

When poets wrote for Down To Earth

Chernobyl facts

Doomsday?

The Earth will evaporate when the sun dies

On shaky ground

The world loves a rogue

Children of war: the real casualties are the poor and the marginalised

Power plant turns gas chamber

How viable is nuclear energy

>>The Power of Promise, Examining Nuclear Energy in India, by M V Ramana, Penguin, Rs 699

Focus shifts to N-plant revamp

Environmental issues took a backseat at the recent G-7 meet where the main concern was the business of revamping Soviet-built nuclear power plants

Nuclear madness

The closure of Chernobyl sends a clear message. Nuclear power is dangerous and unprofitable