Smog envelops India's smaller cities

A recent release from the Central Pollution Control Board, Parivesh, January 2003, presents deadly facts about air pollution levels in Indian …

The shifting smoke of tobacco

Bleached to death

As ocean waters get warmer, coral reefs look even paler this year

No more diverse

Another opportunity lost

This year's UN Commission on Sustainable Development meet provided no roadmap to attain Millennium Development Goals on water, sanitation and …

Perilous pesticides

Housewarning

Pesticide exposure can lead to leukaemia in children

Environmentally unsound

Union budget 2002-03: all the right noises, all the wrong measures

The new recruits

Mixed forecast for agriculture for the ten entrants into the EU

'Bad science' bogey

Lobbies use the old trick

Stratagems vs strategy

Governments, industries gang up against WHO's plan

Killer disease

The world is getting fatter, sicker

No dropping anchor

Mired in misery, Chilika's fisherfolk continue to doggedly fight for their rights

Caught in the web

Of poverty, life in India has improved little over the past decade, reports the planning commission's National Human Development Report 2001

Trouble with doubles

The science of cloning is in the nascent stage

Fat Chance

Reducing obesity -- the leading cause of non-communicable diseases in the world -- has become a political game. At stake are the interests of the …

Children of a lesser State

A rare killer disease, Japanese encephalitis, has been annually and invariably breaking out in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. This year, so far, 3,…

Brush up law

As many tooth-care products contain harmful tobacco

Imbalance of footprints

Resource-rich countries remain poor, and they spend most of their income on food. Developed countries conitnue to increase their appetite

Rise of livestock

Agriculture sector undergoes a historic change as livestock surpasses the economy of food grain

No silver lining

Even as UNEP calls for an international treaty on mercury pollution, India and other developing countries are oblivious to the dangers of being …

How MGNREGA blew Rs 10,853 crore

The “little known” success story of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has unfolded as a disaster. …

Book on pulses takes readers on amazing journey across varied cultures

Pulses are packed with proteins–double than that found in wheat and three times than that in rice

Childhood stunting affects future success in life, say experts

According to a study, stunting causes physical and neurocognitive damage that is irreversible in most cases

Penetrating evidence

Air pollution causes genetic damage among Kolkata residents