New crop scheme for Punjab farmers

No one spared

Pesticides linked to dog cancer

Today's breakfast: DDT

A significant proportion of food products in India, especially infant food products, has been found to be contaminated by poisonous substances

Droopy dead

New findings suggest the vulture might be falling prey to an infectious disease. The scientific community is not yet certain if the vulture's …

Deadly solutions

To die, Warangal farmers have to no longer consume pesticides. A mere exposure is enough to kill them

Stop the cycle of poison

Simply Put: Pesticides, toxins in natural sources of water

The rise and fall of a chemical

DDT use goes back to World War II

Fear instinct

Frogs see common herbicide as predator

Chromium digesters

Bacteria can absorb the toxic chemical

Pesticides raise dementia risk

Direct exposure increases chances of poor cognitive abilities

Molecules of death

Dioxins, which are by-products of industrial processes, are not volatile and are extremely persistent chemicals. They bioaccumulate up the food …

Enervating effect

Once a common pesticide, DDT may be responsible for falling male fertility worldwide

Dying a green death

Killer cornered

Persistent weed killers meet their match

Tea pesticide flavoured

Darjeeling's famous brew, laced with pesticides, poses a threat to public health

Award for ecosecurity

For his outstanding work in fighting malaria, V P Sharma gets the Green Scientist Award 2001

GM blues

Controversy dogs Bt cotton clearance as debate over transgenics continues

Probing a pesticide tragedy

Laboratory tests nail the Plantation Corporation of Kerala. The state government sets up an inquiry committee

International journal vindicates endosulfan study

The strong case against endosulfan just got stronger. Environmental Health Perspectives, a peer-reviewed scientific journal of international …

Bird calls

Another pesticide treadmill

Pesticide peril

An Austrian report calls for a ban on the pesticide lindane

Poisoned strawberries

Infertile growth

Pesticide affects women