In Short

South Asia

All you need is an eye

New monitoring index gives better understanding of a river’s health

On a strong wicket

Perumatty panchayat's case is statutorily sound

Cola major gets a taste of panchayat power

A multi-billion-dollar transnational corporation has had to blink first in an eyeball-to-eyeball dispute with an obscure panchayat of Kerala. On …

Secret of sensitivity

Study says chlorine in tap water and pesticides behind rising food allergies

Not just water

Mineral or drinking water? Government sets new standards to reorganise the bottled water industry

Spent force?

The BIS saga: Real intrigue

Breast milk protects infants from arsenic

Turn on the tap

Why do Americans buy expensive bottled water when they have high quality tap water? That’s been an abiding enquiry for PETER GLEICK. …

पर्यावरण मुकदमों की डायरी: राजस्थान में खनन से प्रदूषित हो रही है खारी नदी

देश के विभिन्न अदालतों में विचाराधीन पर्यावरण से संबंधित मामलों में क्या कुछ हुआ, यहां पढ़ें –

Dirty and thirsty

Conflicts are bad for the environment, says UNEP report

At a time when the threat of war looms large over Iraq, here's more ammunition for peaceniks to confront warmongers with. The United Nations …

Height of inequality

Standard of living determines a child's height

In short

In short

Elemental woe

Do water related issues really matter in Parliament?

Talking about fluorosis

Participants failed to come up with workable solutions at a recent international conference on fluorosis

Fishy deaths

The mystery of large-scale fish fatalities in the Yamuna near Agra and the conflicting official theoriesA report by Prabhanjan Verma

A slur

Rajasthan's marble business poisons waterbodies and chokes lungs

Toxic contamination in Russia's Neva river

Bhopal's Upper Lake threatened by tourism

Chlorine through the skin causes cancer