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Reality check

Not this one

Norwegian ship with asbestos refused entry into Bangladesh

Deadly generosity

Eighty-four nations may have 'agreed' to ban the export of poisonous wastes, but major players in the trade like Germany could ruin the …

E-waste in real space

Unscientific disposal of old computers irks Bangalore

Another ammunition cache in Ghaziabad

There will be many more if we don't clean up

कीटनाशक ईकाइयों के दुष्प्रभाव को कम करने के लिए प्रोटोकॉल तैयार, साल में एक बार होगा औचक निरीक्षण

कीटनाशकों के कारण प्रदूषित होते मिट्टी-पानी और मानव स्वास्थ्य को कम करने के लिए नगरानी प्रोटोकॉल बनाया गया है। सभी कीटनाशक ईकाइयां इस प्रोटोकॉल ...

पानी से जहरीले क्रोमियम को अलग करने वाला स्पंज बनाया

क्रोमियम से डीएनए को भारी नुकसान पहुंचता है और यह कैंसर के ट्यूमर का निर्माण करता है

Trash-fired power plants wasted in India

Controversy mars India's ambitious target of generating 800 MW of energy by burning waste. Ironically, the country does not even generate …

Prelude to extinction

Fishery experts say a global system of management is essential to prevent the extinction of the world's fish stocks, even as the number of …

Jakarta scavengers moan loss of scrap trade

Indonesia is burdened, in more ways than one, by other nations treating it as a dumping ground for their wastes.

Dam of death

Pollution clogs hyacinth control

Insects introduced to curb the spread of water hyacinths are avoiding feeding on those weeds that have been contaminated by toxic metals

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Kept at bay

Explaining the chemistry of an oil spill

Oil tanker spills compound the danger to the marine food chain by crude released into the sea in normal operations and seepage from the earth. …

42 rivers have extremely high concentration of neurotoxic heavy metals

Ganga was found to be polluted with five heavy metals, namely chromium, copper, nickel, lead and iron

Spaced out waste

Oceans despair

1998. The International Year of the Ocean. But the news from the deep is not good

Battery management

Attack aftermath

WTC wreckage releases chemicals

Wordplay

Bid to dilute definition of radioactive wastes in the US

Scrap from Russia is cheaper

So Pakistani shipbreakers accept hazardous warships