Issue fresh consent order: HC to TNPCB
The Madras High Court on Tuesday observed that the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has not applied its mind while giving the consent order for the operation of the controversial Koodankulam
Industrial Dispersal
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Arctic feels the heat
Toxic alcohols waft in from industrialised world
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No concrete plans
The Centre for Science and Environment s Green Rating Project team has rated the cement industry. Its findings uncovered some surprises. The traditional wisdom was that the industry had to be a big time polluter. But what emerged was a more nuanced pictur
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Sewage Outpour
When <font class='UCASE'>prashant krishnan, vinita garg, aditya jha, gurpreet singh</font> and <font class='UCASE'>neeraj kumar</font> set out to map Mayapuri s drainage,they had no inkling that new lessons on sewerage would be in the offing
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Home sweet... yuck
Apartments mushroom on contaminated industrial sites
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Bark with a bite
Eucalyptus helps remove chromium
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Real India needs real answers
Pali is a textile town deep in water scarce Rajasthan. It is well known for the cloth it produces. But it is even better known for the filth it also produces, best seen in the colours in its mostly
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Kiln Eco
Brickmaking is a profit driven enterprise. At one level, it produces the basis of the built up world. But what of the hidden ecological and social costs of making a brick? <font class='UCASE'>vikas parashar</font> delves into the many aspects of wha
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Chinese farmers hurl the red flag
In a violent uprising against industrial pollution, thousands of farmers in eastern China's Huaxi village clashed with nearly 3,000 police personnel before dawn on April 10, 2005, when the latter
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The political economy of defecation
This is a story about Delhi and the Yamuna, about the relationship between one of India’s richest cities and one of her most revered rivers. The plot is an economical one: the Yamuna stretches 22 kilometres along Delhi, but after Rs 55 crore to Rs 75 cror
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Delhi s dream clean up
Factories smugly carry on polluting villages around capital city