Women farmers play a crucial role in South Asia’s agricultural sector and contribute significantly, despite facing numerous challenges. The intersection of climate change, gender, and health can have disproportionate
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
Air pollutants alone may cause acute asthma attacks
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
Another reason for not giving excess antibiotics to farm animals
In New York, bus depots are located in areas where coloured people live
toxicity unleashed: In a controversial move, the EU has legalised the herbicide paraquat even as the bloc's own risk classification and labelling lists the chemical as acutely toxic. The US, too, has
