Buckling down

In its pamphlet, the EPA underplays the health risks due to pesticides

Popping situation

OBSOLETE PESTICIDES

Ethiopia

Limp-frogging

Increasing deformities in frogs attributed to pesticide exposure, which makes them susceptible to parasite infection

Implicated again

Pesticides cause Parkinson's disease

South Asia

Cool stuff?

Farmers concoct pesticides out of colas

Under fire

EPA sued for soft-pedalling

Pest attack

Natural shield

Organic diet increases pesticide tolerance in children

Lucky children

EPA head's selfish act averts pesticide danger on children

DBCP spells trouble

Research without change

Robert Repetto and Sanjay Baliga quote a number of studies carried out by Indians in India and abroad on the impact of pesticides on the immune …

Complementarity begets productivity

ORGANIC farming technologies involve adaptation to local environments. Continuing the series on organic farming (See Down To Earth, November 30, …

Working wonders with neem

There has recently been a flurry of international activity centred around the versatile neem.

Spraying poison

Despite a government ban on use of some common pesticides in agriculture, our food continues to be contaminated. The there-is-no-alternative …

QED

Scientific proof that pesticides harm the human body

Half-baked

What a waste

Why should progress be putrid?

Operation pest guard

Integrated pest management treatments come to the rescue of cotton farmers

Living with the Devil's Element

BBC's film on chlorine is more successful in underlining the vital role it plays in daily life, rather than in detailing why it should be banned

Pesticide film depicts US callousness

Medfly Madness, made by BBC, focusses on what happens when saving a multibillion fruit and vegetable industry takes precedence over the health of …

Beetle's taste for sunflowers alarms experts

Scientists fear the Mexican beetle, introduced to counter the adverse effects of a weed, may destroy the sunflower crop.