Persistent poison

Review highlights need to ban organochlorines worldwide

USA's body burden

People here carry a cocktail of pesticides in their bodies

To kill a mocking pest

With pesticides no longer a viable means of controlling pests in most cases, the search for alternatives like bio-pesticides has proved that …

Chemical catastrophe

Pesticides can render birds sterile. Migratory birds can lose sense of direction. The recent history of the world is full of many such examples ess

Stinging fact

Pesticides driving decline in bumblebee population

Evergreen options

Appetite for danger

Jobs involving hazardous chemicals actually select people with the appropriate genes

Genesis of malaria

A study links malaria to farming

Pestilential high tech

For kids' sake

EPA sued for soft-pedalling on anti-pesticide safeguards

Wheaticide

Herbicide promotes toxic fungi

Master stroke

Specify pesticide levels on soft drinks: Supreme Court

Filter out trouble

Gold and silver nanoparticles remove pesticides from water

Pests behind Codex standards

Swearing by them is nothing more than laziness and deception of regulators

Sounds of self-interested silence

Don't bite that apple!

The government's plans for boosting horticulture to earn foreign exchange do not take into account the hidden costs of deforestation, fertiliser …

Mothballing nitrogen

Some now ways of using fortilisers which will prevent nitrogen seepage into the water table

Governments alone cannot combat pollution

P K Ray an eminent immunotoxicologist and director, Bose Institute, Calcutta, spoke to Amit Nair on the various issues related to human health

The dumber number game

How do you like your food, sir?

Rotterdam Convention: no new agenda for pesticides at chemical review panel meet

Signals under-utilisation of the subsidiary body of Rotterdam Convention

Quality takes back seat in agribusiness

Factory Farming Andrew Johnson Publisher: Blackwell Pages: 272 Price: Not stated

Self -defending spuds

Potato plants that poison pests

Childhood cancers

Chemical banned