South Asia

Alang fire kills five labourers

Shipbreakers tightlipped

Science learns from tradition

Seeds of nuts used by Andhra tribals to purify water yields a substance that can be used to remove toxic metals from industrial waste.

Dirt in the Sea

Where there is smoke

Row over a dump site

Hard facts

Friendly flyash

Here to stay

The Supreme Court stays the auction of toxic wastes

Death of a computer

There is an urgent need to develop a technology to recycle old computers

FOLLOW UP

GAMBIA

Sunscreen, soda...voila

From a woman's point of view

ASIAN AND PACIFIC WOMEN'S RESOURCE AND ACTION SERIES: ENVIRONMENT Edited by Susanna George et al Publisher: Asian and Pacific Development Centre, …

Should free trade include toxic dumping?

Many European nations have banned the free passage of toxic waste between borders, despite the common-market concept.

PAKISTAN AIDS

Ozone friendly, but toxic

Exposure to chemicals being used as alternatives to CFCs can cause liver damage

Dam in protest

Waste is being dumped in Russia

Galina Sdasyuk is a researcher at the Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, and is formulating a sustainable model of …

THAILAND

Dumping disincentives

UNITED NATIONS

More evidence?

Reality check

Not this one

Norwegian ship with asbestos refused entry into Bangladesh