CONTAINING CONTAMINATION

Cess, minister

Even the polluters paid up. But not Gujarat's government

'No, no uranium'

Will the government lend its ear to Andhra public hearing?

South Asia

Do it when crops don't

Industrial devil-ution

Maharashtra and Gujarat. The brightest jewels in India's industrial crown. But impressive industrial growth figures fail to hide the grim …

World Environmental Health Day: Green issues need to be actively taught in schools, universities

Supreme Court in 1991 had directed environment be taught compulsorily at every level of education

Antimicrobial resistance: India needs waste management, process control to prevent antibiotic pollution

Manufacturing process needs control measures; 43% of world’s rivers contaminated with active pharmaceutical ingredients

Poisoned Punjab: Three children in this Fazilka village family are intellectually disabled but there’s no aid

Contaminated canal, groundwater linked to huge disease burden in Churi Wala village, show ground visits by DTE

Poisoned Punjab: Children with intellectual disabilities, severe skin allergies are common in this village

Ground visits by DTE in Dharangwala village reveal 12-13 cancer deaths every year, teetotallers with liver cirrhosis

Death factories: industries at MIDC Dombivli are ticking time bombs

Blasts destroyed a chemical factory in Dombivli in the Thane district of Maharashtra on May 26, killing 12. Here's the inside story …

Supreme abuse

Bulk drug makers at Patancheru continue to pollute in the absence of effective vigilance, shows an analysis by the Centre for Science and Environment

Clogged up in Delhi

More than two years ago, the Union ministry of urban development and poverty alleviation (moud) issued a notification making wastewater recycling …

Wahtech

But what has the state done?

Wah India

Arsenic

Ecologically mindless

The flush toilet system and the sewage system, which goes with modern day personal hygiene and cleanliness, are part of the environmental problem …

The dark zone

When Down To Earth correspondents nidhi jamwal and d b manisha started filing their reports on the problem of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater,…

See it’s easy

Simple ways to detect arsenic and fluoride contamination in water

Bengaluru lakes to get facelift

Karnataka High Court sets 2014 deadline to clean up 189 water bodies

Polluting industries

Water stress

Arsenic food

Official contamination