Choking slowly to death

The Damodar is the most polluted river in the country today, thanks to the several industries that have sprouted on its mineral-rich banks. …

Bare facts

Alang, Gujarat. This is where ships from across the world are sent to be wrecked. A shipbreaking industry has emerged as a consequence, which is …

Rivers Shankhini and Dankini in Chhattisgarh run dirty

Developing countries are dumpyards for e-waste

A recent study in the US shows that by 2004, over 315 million computers will become obsolete. By 2005, for every single computer an American buys,…

Choking slowly to death

The Damodar is the most polluted river in the country today, thanks to the several industries that have sprouted on its mineral-rich banks. …

Talking in riddles

A recent protocol on compensation to victims of hazardous waste permits the generators to go scot-free

Environet

This column will bring you an update on various groups and individuals working in fields related to environment, development and the sciences. …

A mixed bag

The Bangladesh government sends thin plastic bags packing, but has Dhaka seen the last of them? Pinaki Roy on the ban's efficacy

Just dump it

Acids of arsenic. Organo-mercury compounds. Batteries. Bristles of boars or hogs. More potent stuff: asbestos; slag dross; ash and residues of …

Of electronic revolution and sustainability

Healing festering wounds

An action plan is ready to decontaminate UCILÔÇÖs plant site in Bhopal. It just needs to be implemented

Let there be CFL

See the light CFL is becoming popular in India with a little help from government schemes. But its wide-scale use requires regulation

Sun, sea and garbage

India's economic growth is shortsighted

E-waste posing health risks for workers in scrapyards

Beyond Bhopal: incentive for unsafe industries

A judgement by a Bhopal court has brought the worst gas tragedy into spotlight. It has galvanized the media and the government into action. A …

Sitting Ducks

As polluting asbestos units and illegal mining thrive amid lax laws, lakhs of workers become easy prey for dreaded diseases

Interstate dirty dumpers

Industrial units illegally dump hazardous waste in remote fields, often crossing state borders, to dodge the law and cut costs. ravleen kaur …

Billowing Rage

The Sukruli cauldron threatens to boil over if the Orissa government does not act against the smoke-spewing sponge iron plant in the area.

Too hot to handle

India has tightened guidelines for storage of toxic industrial waste. But is it enough?

Bhopal to Germany

Airlifting Union Carbide waste requires amending Indian law, violates Basel Convention