Brazil's public ministry will file a lawsuit against Petrobras, the country's state oil company. They will demand a compensation of us $1.1 billion for a four
Several unusual diseases afflict a Kerala village. Residents blame aerial spraying of the pesticide endosulfan by the Plantation Corporation of Kerala. Sopan Joshi listens
A solvent developed at the University of Alabama, usa , can snatch pollutants dissolved in water. The solvent can be tuned to snatch specific elements from water. The choosy solvent is one of a
A common fern, known as the brake fern (Pteris vittata), endemic to California, usa, has been found to soak up extraordinary amounts of arsenic without any ill effects to itself. This may offer a
K N Narayana Pillai, 75, is an ordinary citizen who has been suffering because of pollution from an industrial unit operating beside his house. He has been running from pillar to post for justice for the past two years but to no avail. He also wrote to An
This EIA report on 10,000 mw Jaitapur nuclear power plant being set up by NPCIL in Ratnagiri says that, this project will have no impact on ecology of the region. However it has not been shared with affected villages. The project has met with strong protests from people whose lands were acquired under protest.