The latest court judgement and Medha Patkar's fast have put the Narmada dam in the picture again. What emerges is that the figures don't add up

Proposals to give industry land for captive plantations has been revived recently, for the umpteeenth time. But what about those critically dependent on forests?

The arrival of avian flue in this country was marked by controversy. The government bungled and poultry farm owners and allied businesses went into denial

Le Clemenceau, the decommissioned French ship headed for Alang shipbreaking yard in Gujarat, is barely the tip of India's waste import iceberg

The challenge in India is to deliver necessary vaccines. But the government seems keen on expensive vaccines before the universal immunisation programme has reached fruition

The industry did well where economic logic met environmental concerns. But it failed to meet expectations on societal parametres and regenerating livelihoods

It isn't just in the oil rigs. An important component of energy security is in the marginal fields of India, where biodiesel plants can be grown to make money for the rural poor. Pipe dream?

The Northeast states are the country's bamboo reservoirs, although people there do not profit from this resource. Soon, as vast swatches of Mizoram, Tripura and Assam face a calamitous event - the flowering of the mautak bamboo that may lead to famine - can they turn this disaster into opportunity?

India's most populous city is a disaster: the July 26 flood proved that, if ecology is not taken into account, urban build-up here can only be a disaster. Will Mumbai rise up?

This legislation touches the core of Indian society: its farmers. But does it not cater to them. Can the bill be re-evaluated before it becomes an Act?

This figure is as per a formula the Supreme Court has decreed, arbitrarily. But forests can be scientifically valued. And this could change India's forest conservation policy for the bette