pollution
Why Southasia’s air is cleaner this Earth Day
Environmental gains for Southasia need not end when factories reopen.
The Editors | Apr 22, 2020
Regulator and regulated breaching the law in Odisha
The aftermath of an industrial accident at a Vedanta coal power plant.
Cheryl Colopy | Feb 01, 2019
Reframing the city
Awadhendra Sharan's 'In the City, Out of Place' might be the most important book on Delhi in recent times.
Sunalini Kumar | Jun 23, 2015
The world’s dumping yard
Delhi has become an informal electronic waste management hub.
Rohit Inani | Mar 06, 2015
A Gangetic pesticide soup
Synthetic pesticides are not only present in our rivers, agricultural fields and groundwater – they are also within our people. We can ban these chemicals, but what is out there is already out there.
Samir Kumar Sinha | Sep 01, 2006
The dark white shroud
The fog over the populated plains of northern South Asia is thicker and lasts longer than in earlier decades but few are bothered to locate the cause behind this distressing trend. Meanwhile, hundreds of millions …
Shruti Debi | Mar 01, 2003
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