A recent study conducted by the World Wide Fund for Nature International on birds in the Midway Islands proves that pollution too makes the world a small place. In other words, contamination patterns in one area brings within its fold cases of se
It seems to be Nigeria all over again in the state ofTabasco near Mexico City. Protestors have blockaded dozens of oil wells belonging to the state-owned oil monopoly, Petroleos Mexicanos
WHAT has been a source of sustenance for years has suddenly become: bane for the tribals of Bastar, Madhya Pradesh. They are being slowly poisoned through contaminated tubewells in the region.
NATURAL organisms are once again coming to the aid of humans in rectifying past errors. Soil pollution, caused by oil products mainly in the oil-producing regions, can now be overcome by
FROM the miasma of late 18th century Manchester to the Earth Summit at Rio, Markham's 'tourist guide to pollution', turns out to be much more than that. Beyond the travelling roadshow of
THF use of live clues to monitor changes in the environment is probably the simplest definition of biomonitoring. In the above sense, it is a rather traditional practice. It has, however, proved to