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Making water-excreta accounts
(by Sunita Narain)


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green hunt

 

The truth about Operation Green Hunt
NGOs: “Tribals suffer heinous atrocities in the name of ‘Naxal clamp-down’ ”
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  Video:
monsoons
  Why are monsoons difficult to predict?
B N Goswami

WATCH: Part - I
WATCH: Part - II
 
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swine flu
  Swine Flu, pandemic threat
Track the survival tale of Influenza
mean sea level
  Residents of Sunderbans bear the brunt of rising sea levels, unmet Kyoto targets
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  Press release
(Feb. 25, 2009)
A tale of disappearing islands and lost addresses
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Event: Global film premier
Slideshow: Film stills
Factsheet
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JOURNALISM AWARDS
APFEJ Announces 2009
Asia-Pacific Environmental Journalism Awards

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why this magazine
 
 
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Bhopals groundwater
Bhopal’s dirty secret
25 years after the gas leak, another tragedy is unfolding in Bhopal. CSE tests reveal the water and soil in and around the Union Carbide factory are loaded with pesticides

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press release PRESS RELEASES
[December. 01, 2009]
 Bhopal In-Depth
lab report PDF:
Full CSE lab report made public
 
factsheet FACTSHEET INFO
Factsheets on legal and medical tangles
 
INFO GRAPHICS
Interactive Maps showing spread
of toxins
 
slideshow SLIDESHOW:
Images spanning 15 years
   

    Mess multiplied

The environment impact assessment notification of 2006 led to creation of
state-level authorities for clearing dvelopment projects. But in the absence of guidelines for the functioning of authorities, the notification has achieved only decentralization of corruption, not careful development

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feature news
  data chaos
Data chaos
Indian science and technology report does not explain why the country fares poorly
Storm in a glass of water
Water purifier makers slug it out in court
over the use of disinfectants
   
Veggie delight
Women regain farm patches to grow
vegetables in water-stressed Yavatmal
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News
  forestland diverted

Missing: Rs 11,000 crore
States fail to recover the minimum value of forestland diverted

Audits show how to take RTI Act forward
No end to India’s vaccine shortage
Deaths in Mumbai linked to landfill
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Opinions
Editorial
Making water-excreta accounts
(by Sunita Narain)
Leader
Ears have been picked, where is the    info?
Crosscurrents
Don’t go by a dog’s guilty look
   (by Anindita Bhadra)
An agenda for India’s green party
   (by Suhit Sen)
The origins of bipedalism
   (by T V Venkateswaran)
science
Frogs heading for mass extinction
Why some people can’t stop eating
Inherited genes are shaped by lifestyle
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Review
empowered revolutionaries Book: Water and the laws in India
(by Ramaswamy R Iyer)
Book: The Greatest Show on Earth
   (by Richard Dawkins)
Book: In Mortal Hands, A Cautionary    History of the Nuclear Age
   (by Stephanie Cooke)
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Environment For Children
     
  Environment Today










The Climate Change Story … Till Now
(November 15, 2009)

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leapfrog factor Leapfrog Factor
The continent dodders as the automobile industry
hardsells cars as the key to a lifestyle of wealth and freedom.


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rich lands, poor people 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.


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RTI status: Check out if information is available in your state
Arvind Kejriwal on RTI

Photo feature
Stone crushers
  Making a living from stones. People of Mahoba district in Uttar Pradesh don’t think it’s a fair deal.

equity watch
  Latest Updates: Nov. 05,09
 
  Prelude to Copenhagen and more on climate change negotiations
Kushal Yadav reports live from Barcelona
  Climate alarm bells ring in    Barcelona
  Hiding behind everything, and    everyone—in plain view
 

dte radio
  Professor Mike Hulme was the Founding Director of the internationally renowned Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and has served as a Lead Author on the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change in 1996 and 2001.
 
Listen to the preview
 

 

says Jairam Ramesh, India’s Union Minister of Forests and Environment to South Asian journalists attending a workshop organized by CSE on the 28th of August in New Delhi.


Watch Shyam Saran, Special Envoy of the Indian Prime Minister on Climate Change brief South Asian journalists and field questions from them

More on
Residents in Chennai refuse to sell their garbage to ITC

Pay to park? Pune's residents don't think so...

Bt Brinjals in markets near you
Listen to Bhargava’s       interview

  Locate The Leak
Is 24/7 water for real or just a pipe dream?

  CLIMATE CHANGE: Solutions Await!
NOE21
 
Video:
People from Himachal doubt cement plant
  Harvesting Pearls in Una
Himachal Pradesh wakes up to artificial pearl harvest – a new, environment-friendly business avenue.
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  How Punjabi are you?
punjabi recipesTry these
recipes of yore
to find out
  Hand Foot and Mouth Disease in Thane
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  The Local Solution
Now tribal battalions will be recruited to fight Naxalism in Maharashtra

(By Aparna Pallavi)
  Goa: Losing Beaches, One tar ball at a time
The issue isn’t even a blip on the Government radar yet.

(By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar)
  Slide Show:
Green Pease
  Greenpeace protest against Nestle’s GM stand October 08, 2009
  Video:
R.S Bisht revisits the Harappan site in Dholavira
Locate on an interactive map,
the cause and effect of the drought
  Video:
Getting your house painted?
tristram stuart
Tristram Stuart, the author of Waste: Uncovering a global food scandal,  says the easiest way of saving the planet is not to waste food.
Listen to the interview
See photographs that prove Stuart's claim.
webspecial
EU's easy way to dispose e-waste Send it as second hand goods to Africa or East Asia

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climate alert

Public hearings in Raigarh
Audio: Environment Minister  wants to be strict
Video: But, CSE find gaps in EIA reports
PDF: Stage-managed hearings in raigarh
Engineering Floods
Violent
Panorama of
Kosi floods
Readers Dispatch
Residents angry at a city that has sufficient water but refuses to guarantee equal access
Ammonia leak haunts Bhopal surviver
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
Aila
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
Cogeneration
energy deficit

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

RTI activists
RTI activists jailed for singing the National Anthem
Cycle of movement
wins in the race
  Watch video to find out who wins in the race to emit more
 
Gimme way
cyclists
  Documented evidence
reveals why cyclists are a
confused, pesky lot
 
Slideshow: Dogged determination to go places has its funny moments on the road
recyclers
   
  Trade secrets
The great Indian recyclers go candid on what it takes to be a true professional
Slideshow
tiger in corbett
Tiger tales
Ravleen Kaur heard many stories tailing the tiger in Corbett

farmers

Watch on youtube
The making of CFL...
Making of CFLs
Demand and trade of CFLs
Small Scale CFL Production
 




   


 
   
 
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