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2010: choose your future today (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
58:25 min | VCD/DVD | Stereo
 
  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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softere plastic toy Hand to mouth

The proof of a good toy is how soon
a toddler begins sucking on it. But is that safe?

A lab study by Centre for Science
and Environment finds the softer the
plastic toy the more harmful it is for
the child

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feature news
  quacks treat polio in bihar
Quacks treat polio in Bihar
And charge exorbitantly for nothing
Uncertified scientists
Sahyadri tribals revive crops that find
no mention in agricultural records
The thirsty dread water scarcity
Residents of Sundergarh in Orissa learn to manage their own water supply
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News
  poverty estimation

9 per cent poorer
A new method of poverty estimation finds India has more poor people than believed

Policy out on India’s biofuel production.
Will it be at the cost of food production?
Trapped in a heat bubble
Vidarbha complains of rising temperatures, government approves more industries
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Opinions
Editorial
2010: choose your future today
(by Sunita Narain)
Leader
A programme for the polio victim?
Crosscurrents
The forgotten small farmer
   (by Seema Purushothaman)
Asteroid detection from the moon
   (by Aniruddha Uniyal)
science
There is still hope for drowning deltas
Noise pollution has birds sing    differently
Rains escape farmlands, deluge    cities
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Review
end of food Book: The End of Food
(by Paul Roberts)
Book: The Strangest Man, the Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, the Mystic of the Atom  (by Graham Farmelo )
Book: Counterknowledge
   (by Damian Thompson)
See all...

 
Acid Test     GOBAR TIMES
Environment For Children
     
copenhagen 2009   Environment Today
What’s your nature?
(January 15, 2010)

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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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Dodging between playstations and homework, do children need toys or are we buying these out of habit?
A child psychologist, a parent and a toy designer offer inputs
 
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  Video:
  Making of a toy
On skype with Barry Matthew Kudrowitz, an instructor on toy design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
good toy

  Video:
  What is a good toy? Sudarshan Khanna, former Professor of design at National Institute of Design explains the process of developing a toy, giving examples of his favourite folk toys
good toy

cop15

webspecial
  No mobile towers in residential areas
People from all over Maharashtra gather to protest mobile towers. Impact on health major concern
(by RAJIL MENON, Mumbai)

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  Video:
  A bonesetter from Old Delhi explains his popularity: Unlike doctors, he is more accountable to people

New ambient air quality standards
are out. More cities and towns are now critically polluted. Is your city one of
them? Find out

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  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.
 
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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
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.

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.
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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