Mercury hits Indian healthcare

Mercury can affect even adolescent brains

The UCIL plant is still a health hazard

The government still does not know what still afflicts people in Bhopal

What the Centre and the state government did to rehabilitate victims

Industry flouts weak regulations at will

Bhopal is a metaphor for disaster, industrial and human. It has been the object of much speculation and typically endless litigation. A case study in regulatory law, it could serve as wonderful proof in an argument to uphold the precautionary principle. R

At a time when most countries are phasing out mercury, India has donned the dubious mantle of the world’s toxic capital. Its import of elemental mercury doubled from 254 tonnes in 1996 to 531 tonnes in 2002, making it the biggest consumer of the hazardous

With temperatures in Europe at an all-time high, German nuclear plants have become too hot to handle. The soaring mercury has forced authorities to switch off the reactor at one plant and reduce the

toddlers in trouble: A research institute has found high levels of mercury in 60 per cent of newborns at hospitals in Itaituba city, in the Brazilian Amazon. Out of the 1,666 babies born during 2002

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