Pesticide endangers fish

Koi decimated, claims study

Growing organic tea in northeast India is a difficult task

Cancer state

India cannot afford organic farming

S K SINHA national professor at the Water Technology Centre, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, spoke to Manish Tiwari on food …

Children of endosulfan

Several unusual diseases afflict a Kerala village. Residents blame aerial spraying of the pesticide endosulfan by the Plantation Corporation of …

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Push to revoke endosulfan ban

Official letter reveals how Kerala is succumbing to the pressure of pesticide lobby

Vitamin shield

Eat lots of fruits and vegetables to lessen pesticides’ effects

Another Kasaragod

Like Kerala’s Kasaragod, neighbouring Dakshina Kannada is bearing the brunt of spraying of endosulfan. While Kasaragod grabbed media …

Is chemical the culprit?

Scientists in Bihar find a plausible link between pesticides and breast cancer

A few questions

Pesticide fatigue

Makes the busy bee a lazy pollinator

Not learning from Bhopal

Relief given at last to Kerala’s endosulfan victims

Package includes committee to examine need for tribunal to provide compensation; excluded victims, kin and caregivers to benefit

Small doses of chemicals harm foetus

Europe to phase out major pesticides

EU decides to withdraw about 320 substances used in plant protection products - including pesticides, fungicides and herbicides - from markets by …

Biomonitors for pollution

Seaweeds could act as indicators of heavy metal pollution in sea

Pesticides lobby’s coup

Krishi Bhavan supports endosulfan companies; Kerala protests

Endosulfan sufferers don't count

Many endosulfan sufferers in Kerala still not recognised

Simply Put: Insect killers

Researchers develop pesticide alternative to protect plants form viral infection 

New screening process can detect efficient molecules that can help kill virus

This gel can protect farmers from toxic pesticides

Researchers at Institute for Stem Cell Science & Regenerative Medicine, Bengaluru, developed poly-Oxime that deactivates toxic chemicals, …

India needs a comprehensive approach to prevent pesticide related suicides

Most persons who engage in suicidal behaviour don't want to die but the government lacks proper data on the incidence of pesticide poisoning …

FAO, WHO pesticide guidelines seek faster phasing out of toxins

Products with acute toxicity account for the high number of poisoning cases, particularly in the developing countries

Toxic truths

A soil bacterium produces a lethal toxin which kills insects as they chew their way into a plant