In the red

Left at the mercy of brokers who dictate the market terms, many cultivators of Gloriosa superba have consumed the plant's poisonous tubers to …

Pesticide industry thriving on legal loopholes

The CSE's recent expos has blown the lid off the bottled water industry's tall claims on the purity of its products. Simultaneously, it has …

The curse of coca

The move to use a new herbicide to eradicate the coca plant spells trouble for South America's rainforests

A close hard look

Malaria is easy to check. Just do not let mosquitoes breed. This is the essence of the bioenvironmental way to control such tiny big disease …

Farming for the future

Despite having the potential to give a green edge to the agricultural market, biopesticides are yet to make a mark in the agro sector. To create …

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 …

Fine print hassles

Chemical manufacturers shaken by India's signing POPs convention

Tea pesticide flavoured

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

Kerala's backwaters carry modern-day brunt

Their ecosystem is under threat but no one seems to care

Toxic tales from God's own country

As deformity cases swell in Kerala's Kasaragod district, the silent screams of the victims fall on the deaf ears of the government

High yields in Andhra's pesticide-free village

After the People met

The Union ministry of home affairs wants to know: what is the Meghalaya government going to do about the 'People's Budget'?

Default drinking water

'Corporate Responsibility' has died a fancy death at the altar of public relations. A recent chemical analysis of branded packaged drinking water (…

Home truths

Most popular paints in India contain high quantities of lead, a toxin especially dangerous to children. The Centre for Science and Environment&…

The vanishing lakes

There is more water than land in north Bihar. The rivers that ramble down from the Himalaya feed numerous depressions scattered all over the …

Back in f(l)avour

Entry of high yielding hybrid rice has spelt doom for traditional diversity in the Konkan belt. Thanks to a science academy, the ancient legacy …

Beyond The Billion

If post-Independence leaders of India had ensured full literacy, a solution would have been in sight for a lot of problems. Population, for one. …

Mark Lynas and the demeaning of science

He’s fuzzy on facts and low on science, but the campaigner gets big media support

Children of endosulfan

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

Growing organic tea in northeast India is a difficult task

Cotton conundrum

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

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?

The age of discovery

Research in rice genomics could be the key to eradicating hunger through environmentally sustainable methods, says Latha Rangan

Cola gets an artist going

A mastadon rages on

A hurried job

Karnataka government’s survey to estimate the scale of endosulfan tragedy is a half-hearted attempt