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"I compete with birds"
When Peter Kaestner is not holding visa interviews at the US Embassy in Delhi, he prefers nurturing his ambition of spotting all the 10,000 known bird species

Air alert: Unclean, unchecked (July 15, 2009)
Do you know what we city dwellers breathe?
Facts, fiction on eclipse
Biking in the Aravallis
Synthetic dyes

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EDITORIAL
Can we afford not to change? Can we afford the change? (by Sunita Narain)

EDITOR'S ARCHIVE

LETTERS


	Residents of Sunderbans bear the brunt of rising sea levels, unmet Kyoto targets 58:25 min \| VCD/DVD \| Stereo

	Press release (Feb. 25, 2009) A tale of disappearing islands and lost addresses More... Event: Global film premier Slideshow: Film stills Factsheet Buy this film online


	Vaccine shortage puts 25 million children at risk. Functional public sector units delicensed to cater to private interests

A DPT vaccine manufactured by the public sector CRI in Kasauli. The health ministry has scrapped the vaccine unit’s licence





	Gates’ biased affection Their charity programme does not always focus on the needs of the poor

	Managing one’s share of rain A Bengaluru housing society has its own water tariff system, while Tamil Nadu revives village ponds

	The first mummy Unlike wealthy Egyptian mummies, this fishing community in Chile fell victim to arsenic poisoning 7,000 years ago

	An hierloom in muslin When neighbourly relations are cultured by a curd strain since the 1940s

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	Land goes to industry Gujarat gave land to Nirma just when irrigation seemed possible

	How Pune keeps clean Two villages suffer the city’s waste. Outsiders refuse marry their daughters to these village residents

	Why the Tipaimukh dam in Manipur makes Bangladesh angry

	No headway at climate meet in Bonn

	Cyclone Aila leads to migration from Sunderbans

	Coastal Management Zone notification held back

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Editorial Can we afford not to change? Can we afford the change? (by Sunita Narain)

Leader
India needs land for water…
…and not for garbage

Crosscurrents

An apex court order will only hit the large SEZs (by Partha Mukhopadhyay)

A country of young people lives in denial about scarcity, violence and global warming (by Gopalkrishna Gandhi)





Ninth tomato leaf curl virus found

Special glass for stronger bridges

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	Book: Cyburbia:, the dangerous idea that’s changing how we live and who we are (by James Harkin)

Book: India’s new capitalists (by Harish Damodaran)

Film: Tobacco, threat to life and development (Directed by Mike Pandey)

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	Leapfrog Factor The continent dodders as the automobile industry hardsells cars as the key to a lifestyle of wealth and freedom. Sample chapter \| Buy

	Rich Lands, Poor People: Is Sustainable Mining Possible? The continent dodders as the automobile industry hardsells cars as the key to a lifestyle of wealth and freedom. Sample chapter \| Buy

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	EU's easy way to dispose e-waste Send it as second hand goods to Africa or East Asia Read more...



	Vedanta wins environment award. Activists up in arms

	The award winning tamasha... Activists block Vedanta from receiving the Golden Peacock

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	Aila @ 110 km/hr



	Images after Aila cyclone, brought back by photographers of Drik India/ MajorityWorld, organizations dedicated to development photography in the South



	Unofficial anger: DTE's Alok Gupta reflects on Aila



	Satellite images of cyclone





	Swine Flu, pandemic threat Track the survival tale of Influenza



	Cogeneration



	Can cogeneration bridge the energy deficit? We snooped around for examples from within and outside India





	RTI activists jailed for singing the National Anthem



	Cycle of movement



	Watch video to find out who wins in the race to emit more



	Gimme way



	Documented evidence reveals why cyclists are a confused, pesky lot


	Slideshow: Dogged determination to go places has its funny moments on the road




	Trade secrets The great Indian recyclers go candid on what it takes to be a true professional



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	Tiger tales Ravleen Kaur heard many stories tailing the tiger in Corbett







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	The making of CFL...

Making of CFLs

Demand and trade of CFLs

Small Scale CFL Production



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