The illegal trade in chemicals
<p>Chemicals provide important benefits to society and play a vital role in the global economy, but they also carry risks for the environment and human health, with greater risks to vulnerable social groups.
Toxic Wastes
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Hot air
Biogas emissions less hazardous than believed
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South Asia
what a waste: For the past two months, 11-year-old Tsheten Dorji is being treated for third-degree burns he received from chemical waste dumped by factories in Balujhora in Bhutan's Pasakha town.
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Back in business
Alang shipbreakers get a new lease of life
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Scrap from Russia is cheaper
So Pakistani shipbreakers accept hazardous warships
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Radioactive Crime
A Russian court has upheld a federal government's decision to dismiss Vitaly Sadovnikov, director of Mayak, the nation's main nuclear waste processing plant in the Ural mountains. Sadovnikov had
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Reality check
The Czech government has stepped up border checks and vowed to increase monitoring of remote farmland areas after officials discovered over a dozen sites that German companies were illegally using
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Bytes
helpful germs: Scientists have found a bacteria that could help transform disposable cups and plates into a biodegradable plastic, according to a recent study. The useful microbes are a special
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Not this one
Norwegian ship with asbestos refused entry into Bangladesh
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About turn
For the third time, Le Clemenceau has been forced to turn back and return to France. The French government summoned the decommissioned ship back even though France's defence minister argued that
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Toxic harbour
The presence of toxic waste in Sydney Harbour in Australia has forced authorities to invest around us $150 million in a clean-up programme. They also put an end to centuries of commercial fishing
