An upcoming port at Dhamra was cited as the reason for the endangered Olive Ridley turtles giving the Gahirmatha beach a miss last year. This year, they are back. But there are other problems with the port: its environmental clearance is actually flawed

Indian regulators are keen to clear Bt brinjal for commercial cultivation. This would be India’s first genetically modified food crop. If Indian consumers do not want GM food, they would have no way to tell if the brinjals they buy are transgenic or not

There are too few handling facilities and a pile up of highly toxic industrial waste. The government has come up with new storage guidelines. But it cannot ensure safety. Monitoring disposal and clean industrial processes are weak areas still

See the light CFL is becoming popular in India with a little help from government schemes. But its wide-scale use requires regulation

The Haldia port is silted up and companies that rely on it are spending Rs 1,050 crore a year on alternative transport

India’s moon mission is a search for minerals and prompts questions of area demarcation and ownership of land on the satellite

After years of building roads and flyovers, Delhi government has decided to change tack to address congestion on its roads invest in new, sleek buses to restricted private vehicles. Other cities have followed suit. But their dream bus is either not on the market or just too expensive. Orders placed several months ago are overdue. The two major bus makers, Tata and Ashok Leyland, can barely deliver 100 a month till they ramp up production. sunita narain and arnab pratim dutta chase India's bus business and ask what would it take to transition to good urban transport

Bihar floods expose India’s unpreparedness to tackle disasters and the folly of trying to confine the Kosi within a jacket of embankments

The human-tiger conflict continues in the Sunderbans. Inaccessible terrains help the tiger. In the case of another big cat, despite a successful lion conservation programme, they are endangered still

State governments, rushing to industrialize, are falling over themselves to offer industry the cheapest deal. But local people refuse to be treated as ‘external’, Ieading to a war over development

Representatives of 180 nations met in Rome in the first week of June, seeking a salve to a food crisis, getting serious by the day. Three days later, it was the story of yet another effete meet