The most devastating feature of Kosi, Bihar's sorrow, has been its ruthless course shifts. In the last 200 years, it has moved westwards by as much as 110 km averaging some 0.5 km every year. Up to

Caught in a death trap, Jharia residents await doomsday. While BCCL openly displays a let them die attitude and the government remains silent, people continue sitting on fire

A uranium plant in Bihar is being blamed for the numerous diseases that afflict the area

• The ministry of environment and forests has banned setting up of

Plans to develop Salim Ali s dream bird sanctuary lie unattended to

the threat of arsenic pollution looms large over the north Karanpura coal fields of south Bihar, in the coal samples of Bachara and Piparwar. A recent study conducted by Nitish Priyadarshi, a

nine tribes of southern Bihar are reportedly facing extinction due to rampant unplanned industrialisation in the Jharkhand region. Gautam S Rana, chairperson, environmental committee of the state

a plant powder reportedly used by the adivasis of Bihar as oral contraceptive, has been confirmed by scientists to have anti-pregnancy effects. A recent report said that the claims of tribal