INDIA

Pesticide endangers fish

Koi decimated, claims study

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

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

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

Biomonitors for pollution

Seaweeds could act as indicators of heavy metal pollution in sea

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 …

Cotton conundrum

The powers that be are hanging fire on Bt cotton despite long and intensive research. Indira Khurana delves into the baffling issue

Rules and renegades

Pesticide regulations in India are lax. The industry has exploited the loopholes to corrupt the system. And the government has turned a blind eye …

Industry's Nemesis

A report by the National Institute of Occupational Health nails endosulfan. Is that why the pesticide establishment wants to keep it under wraps?

E-waste toxins in mum’s milk

Urban people more at risk

Centre seeks view on endosulfan

States say all is well with the hazardous pesticide

Endosulfan banned, conditionally

India agrees to ban the hazardous pesticide globally, asks for exemptions at home

Karnataka bans endosulfan

State appeals to the Centre for a nationwide ban