Wheaticide
Herbicide promotes toxic fungi
Herbicide promotes toxic fungi
The Food and Agricultural Organisation (fao) has promised "substantial financial support' to help Tanzania dispose of about 1,000 tonnes of pesticides stored in the country's warehouses. These
Herbicides are the culprits
Ideology rules the roost in USA
More new norms wanted
By regulation, the soft drink industry must use potable water. But what s that? Who ensures municipalities meet standards? What standards? Under which law?
The Colombian government is caught between a rock and a hard place. A court has ordered the country's government to stop spraying Monsanto's glyphosate herbicides on coca and other crop plantations
In February, we released a study on pesticide residues in bottled water being sold in the market. We reported how we found legalised pesticides in bottled water. In other words, the norms for
Deadly pesticides found in 12 leading brands of soft drinks
Environmental effects of aerial spraying of Endosulphan at the Cashew plantations of Kasaragod District is a burning issue during the past few years and now also in Kerala. Endosulphan aerial spraying was done in Kasaragod District by Plantation Corporation during the last 24 years.
Poor quality pesticide trade thrives in J&K
New York's state attorney, Eliot Spitzer, plans to initiate legal action against a unit of Dow Chemical Company of the US for alleged violation of a 1994 pact banning false advertising of a
Organic crops contain more healthy compounds than their conventional counterparts, because they are not exposed to pesticides. Work by US-based University of California indicates that organic berries
An analysis of museum artifacts returned to the Hoopa tribe of the us reveals traces of mercury and various pesticides, including ddt. Such chemicals
In the context of the New Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment CSE study on pesticides in bottled water, <font class='UCASE'>Sharad Yadav</font>, Union minister of consumer affairs, spoke to Down To Earth about issues of regulation in publ
The CSE’s recent exposé has blown the lid off the bottled water industry’s tall claims on the purity of its products. Simultaneously, it has brought to the surface a much larger problem: contamination of groundwater by pesticides
February 09, 2003: bis says it will effect changes in packaged drinking water norms and follow European standards. Department of science and technology scientists confirm findings of the Centre
Last time I wrote about the cycle of poison, where one toxic substance is replaced with another, equally toxic, one. This cycle, I wrote, is exactly like the modern eco nomy where business is
for fisherfolk and traders in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, catching fish is child's play, thanks to harmful pesticides such as endosulfan. The fisherfolk contaminate the upper reaches of
death stalks the workers of the International Rice Research Institute (irri) in Philippines. Because more than four decades of experiments and intensive studies have let loose a toxic trail. This