USA's e-waste reincarnates as Chinese gold

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

Draft EIA notification favours industry over environment

In short

Update

Environet

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

Supergrass

Here is the latest on genetically-modified plants with enough power to neutralise some of the most potent pollutants we know today

Blue Lady contained radioactive waste

Bhopal’s toxic links with Indore

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

Trick or treat?

Countries approach communities to say yes to nuclear disposal site near them

Pops out

'Stop soft-pedalling'

Mumbai suburbs gets a landfill site for hazardous waste

Kanjumarg will aggravate Mumbai's waste crisis

Court asks polluting plants in Goa to shut down

No one's controlling mercury

A different waste model

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

DoIT to provide subsidies for recycling e-wastes

Pollution Pvt. Ltd.

A polluting industrial unit in Gujarat continues to operate, despite the state Pollution Control Board issuing notices to shut it down

EU regulation bans six toxic chemicals in household gadgets

EU frames stringent rules against toxic chemicals

Hussain Sagar goes to toxic waste

Five years on, no progress on project to clean 16th century lake

Healing festering wounds

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