Wonder weed

A river polluted

Doting on dung

Kenyan ingenuity uses elephant dung for making paper

Testing time

In Karnataka, a lesson in water scarcity

Profitable in every way

Scientists develop method to use jute for making paper pulp

India's biggest tomato district surrenders to cheap Chinese pulp

Farmers of Chittoor and nearby areas in Andhra Pradesh are struggling to get minimum returns from the crop

Here's how many times you actually need to reuse your shopping bags

Looking at raw materials, manufacturing, transport, and eventual disposal, researchers calculate greenhouse gas emissions, waste disposal, …

When bloom spells doom

Bamboo flowering in Orissa without fresh procurement threatens to drive plant to extinction

Aiding agenda

Planters devils?

The debate over captive plantations for the paper industry rages like a prairie fire

Letters

In Court

"Zero-waste life isn't wishful thinking"

Hannah Sartin rarely dumps a plastic wrapper or paper ball as trash. At 32, she owns Munich's first zero-waste shop and has published a book that …

Hidden subsidies in power, paper industries

If paper and power prices included ecological costs, the consumer would have to pay at least 60 per cent more for them than he pays today

No Kodak moments any more

Letters

This paper mill in Punjab is causing cancer, loss of vision

Residents allege that the Kuantum pulp and paper mill in Saila Khurd, the only industry in the block for 30 years, is responsible for their …

Foresters warned

No pulp fiction

An ecofriendly process to convert paper mill waste into hydrogen

Chasing a paper (d)ream

Since the 1990s, the use of recycled paper has unfortunately reduced by half

Greening the industry

The Centre for Science and Environment ( CSE) releases the environmental rating of the pulp and paper sector. Participants laud CSE efforts …

A fair hearing

On World Environment Day, the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) put out an advertisement propagating plastic as the alternative to the …

Forestry, the Mexican way

Poplar winner

Are GM trees ready to turn the paper and pulp industry green?

No a los papelones a film on Argentine activists' fear over pulp mill