Uranium (U238) was detected in all breast milk samples from 40 mothers in Bihar, with nearly 70% of infants facing exposure linked to poten...

Each year, countless tons of American electronic waste find their way to Southeast Asia, leaving developing nations ill-equipped to handle ...

IIT Guwahati researchers have created a fluorescent sensor that detects cyanide in water and human cells using UV light. The sensor changes...

The innovation can help degrade industrial pollutants such as toxic dyes. The approach includes generating the chemical directly within the...

Tracy Quinn, president of Heal the Bay, assessed the damage from the Palisades Fire, noting hazardous ash and debris contaminating the Paci...

Researchers at IIT Guwahati have created a new method to detect toxic metals in cells using perovskite nanocrystals. These nanocrystals, en...

A woman with a background in agricultural science used Thallium, a tasteless and odorless poison, to fatally poison her husband and four in...

Called "e-Source", the exchange platform that will serve as an online marketplace for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and ...

The level of lead detected in samples collected from the floodplain ranges from 2.8mg/kg to 13.8mg/kg, it said, adding heavy metal toxicity...

Scientists have developed a new flexible, stretchable and tunable "meta-skin" that can protect objects from radar detection.

CSE's Anupam Srivastava told TOI on Friday that the report will soon be presented to the Union and state governments.

People living close to some of Delhi’s landfills are routinely exposed to extremely polluted air and those drinking groundwater from the ar...

Scientists are working on a wide range of human activity, from energy storage to clothing, solar cells to therapeutics to create a benign e...

A dip in river Ganga can possibly cause cancer.Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi had declared that cleaning Ganga was his top priority bu...

The Green Chemistry Network Centre (GCNC) of Delhi University has claimed to have developed a solution for chromium pollution from tannerie...

Chinese officials claimed to have detected 15,000 cases of substandard food in a crackdown & shut down 5,700 unlicensed businesses.

China has wrestled with the problem and come up with ingenious solutions. It adopted techniques like river water management.