Month: March 2017

$Cauvery basin, Cauvery delta, hydrocarbon extraction, seismic survey, airgun, produced water, heavy metal contamination, offshore drilling, Neduvasal, zooplankton, humpback whale, Minke whale, beluga, bearded seal, bowhead whale, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, proppant sand, aluminium silicate, nonylphenol ethoxylate, methylisothiazolinone, neurotoxic, genotoxic, boron, phenol formaldehyde resins, glyoxal, isotridecanol ethoxylate, TNPCB, Sterlite copper smelter, Vedanta Sterlite, Thoothukudi protest, ONGC,$

In Neduvasal, a Push to Protect Farmlands Is About Holding the Government Accountable

Catherine Gilon 03/03/2017

While farmers, researchers and activists want politicians to be...

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In India’s Fight Against Tuberculosis, Diagnostics Remains Poorly Understood

Ankur Paliwal 03/03/2017

A lack of innovation in diagnostics is making Indians...

The wing of the bird-like feathered dinosaur Anchiornis is pictured under laser-stimulated fluorescence in this handout photo

Feathered Dinosaur From a Time Before Archaeopteryx Found Using New Technique

Will Dunham 01/03/2017

A technique using high-powered lasers to reveal hidden soft...

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It Will Take More than a Prime Minister to Clean Up the Ganga

Armin Rosencranz and Dushyant Kaul 01/03/2017

By putting the NGT in charge of monitoring the...

Stories From Ennore, Where an Oil Spill Only Piled on to Older, Nastier Disasters

Archanaa Seker and Dharmesh Shah 01/03/2017

"The river was beautiful many years ago. Now, the...

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All You Need to Know About the Neduvasal Protests Against Hydrocarbon Extraction

Nityanand Jayaraman 01/03/2017

Rather than allowing every protest to degrade into name-calling,...