Government agencies, companies must be accountable for peddling harmful chemicals

The Supreme Court's order to compensate endosulfan victims within three months is a welcome move, but India still needs to strengthen its …

Parliamentary panel finds tobacco harmful for forests

The panel found that financial benefits due to tobacco cultivation were negligible as compared to losses suffered in terms of deaths 

Secret of sensitivity

Study says chlorine in tap water and pesticides behind rising food allergies

Prickly issue

Maximum intake of pesticides is through skin

Affordable kit to test for pesticides

No one is cleaning up

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

SC bans endosulfan, for now

Committee to submit report on the pesticide's toxicity in eight weeks

Bad chemistry

Asbestos, agribusiness get a leg up

PR companies give public face to corporate agenda

New endosulfan ploy

Industry is sidestepping issues by pitching the proposed UN ban on endosulfan as the battle between generics and patented pesticides

Delhi, The biggest culprit

Centre restricts use of common weedicide glyphosate citing health hazards

Experts welcome move but call for a complete ban 

Singapore

Kerala HC bans endosulfan, final decision awaited

America bugged

Promoting good food is cheap and the returns are 12 times the investment

For every $1 invested in policies to control lifestyle diseases, the financial returns can ensure millions of lives are saved, says WHO. But is …

'We can contain the pest'

India's temperature and atmospheric conditions are ideal for the spread of Fall Armyworm

There’s no antidote to paraquat herbicide, ban it: Odisha docs to govt

They went on a hunger strike since the “lethal” herbicide killed 171 people in two years

China bans five pesticides

Contest for pesticide

Demand for state control as Pesticides Management Bill is set to be tabled in Parliament

New crop scheme for Punjab farmers

Order on production ban of coke in Kerala quashed

Peafowl deaths in Punjab linked to pesticides

Join the dots

"Governments should try for 100 per cent pure water"

HANS JEURING is the chairperson of Codex Committee on Pesticides Residue (CCPR). It is responsible for establishing maximum limits for pesticide …