African invasion

PESTS CONTROL

Virus on the prowl

The West Nile virus claims its first victim in the US

Welcome signals

New York moves towards making pesticide warning flags mandatory

South Africa

UNITED NATIONS

Parkinson's disease and

Hot pursuit

Export bite forces a plan to promote residue-free chilli

Caution words

Court spells out pesticide wording for soft drinks

Risky contact

Pesticides cause serious health effects among US farm workers

Not immune to threat

A compound commonly found in fungicides and pesticides causes irreversible damage to our immune system

'Ours is a model of natural farming'

A couple in Kerala demonstrate that barren land can be brought back to life without using any external inputs.

Anti bodies

Pesticides -- on the face of it, ordinary chemicals to contain pests, but in reality, deadly killers which could deliver the ultimate blow by …

Making of a nightmare

Pakistan faces trying times ahead, as insecticide resistant cotton pests threaten to devastate the country's fledgling economy

Closed systems, open minds

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has been doing research on health and environment in the public interest. But most government …

Capping toxic chemicals

A regional pact in Geneva proposes to ban or restrict the use of persistent organic pollutants

Pesticides banned

In the US, two widely-used pesticides are banned for their toxicity, even as it is used indiscriminately in India

The lotus effect

Water doesn't stick to lotus leaves. Nature has given the plant a self-cleaning mechanism. Crack the science of it, and you have the formula for …

Field report

Bt cotton farmers in Karnataka are an insecure and confused lot, and neither the government, nor Mahyco or the anti-Mahyco groups are any help at all

Cotton tangle

Indian Bt cotton varieties show 75 per cent expression of the Bt gene, while elsewhere it is 100 per cent

RESIDUE OF A REVOLUTION

News Snippets

Talking heads

While medics call for more research, government officials dismiss the finding saying "private studies are not enough"

Zeroing in on persistent pollutants

Paints and refrigerants have chemicals like polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons which are difficult to remove …

Experiments with established truth