Breathing poison

Counteractive

Do mosquito repellents have adverse health effects?

THAILAND

Feud settled

Sapping structures

Bytes

Nanoparticle safety under scanner

Are nanomaterials safe?

Konkan village rejects mining plan

Officials say villagers are not final arbiters

On air

Angry residents of Delhi flooded the chief minister's office with phone calls to protest against the withdrawal of a ban on polluting vehicles

Coma after death

Child victims of a frayed medical service and a government programme gone wrong raise a mute question

Between the lines

lpg, touted as the cleanest fuel option, is responsible for the release of high levels of nitrogen oxides and suspended particulate matter

"Asthma afflicts almost every house in Gorai"

Pramod N Bagud (PNB), a pediatrician, and Manoj K Ved (mkv), a general physician, practise in Gorai, an area infamous for a 15-hectare dumpsite …

Smog havoc

Chile choked

Pollution forces authorities to impose strict measures in Chile

CAMBODIA

Still reeling

New SARS cases in China

Pune: a contradictory picture

Bhopal: towards disaster zone

Delhi: the capital punishment

US comes clean

Diesel becomes a dirty word in the official US environmental lexicon

Re-examined

Air pollutants alone may cause acute asthma attacks

Food allergies on the rise

Increase in number of cases reported across the world; prevalence rate in India could be 3 per cent

Killers in the air

A study of 90 US cities clearly links air pollutants to death and disease

Choking link

Ultrafine pollution particles can penetrate very deep into the lungs

Suffocating Kolkata

Air pollution has put the city of joy on top of the lung cancer map in the country