A can of worms

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Toxicitea tangle

Safeguards have been erected to weed out the supplies of tea laden with high pesticide residue levels. But when governments use these benchmarks …

Periyar river's pollution is Eloor's bane

Lungful of poison

Poor regulators do not a rich country make

Endosulfan ban to continue

Supreme Court appointed committee fails to submit interim report    

Poisonous rats

Birds and mammals are dying after eating rodents which have consumed rodenticides

Pesticide to Parkinson's

Study reveals a link

India allows Harleys in exchange for mangoes

Brain drain

Consuming vegetables contaminated with heavy metals and pesticides can lower a child's intelligence, warns a study

Fall Armyworm attack: Rwanda fights it back successfully

The country couldn’t predict the pest attack owing to few resources, but it successfully minimised its impact within a year of identifying it

Pest attacks on rise across India, yet no discussion on spurious pesticides

As allegedly fake pesticides prove ineffective in controlling pests, farmers resort to indiscriminate spraying

Stinging fact

Pesticides driving decline in bumblebee population

Stop endosulfan

Involuntary sex change

This is next in the series of frog extinction events

Pesticides in US farmworkers' children

Indo-US deal undermines food safety

According to report

Default drinking water

'Corporate Responsibility' has died a fancy death at the altar of public relations. A recent chemical analysis of branded packaged drinking water (…

Cola controversy lesson for media management

EPA approves controversial pesticide

Feeling jumpy

Amphibians at risk even from low pesticide concentrations

Adulterated milk floods Maharashtra

Experiments with established truth

Wrong to say Bt cotton successful in India: Environmental activists

The GM crop traditionally modified to repel pests has instead induced new pests that can greatly disrupt the ecological balance