The joke

Decentralisation

Prop review

By centre for forest scheme

Promises and lies

Supreme Court stays government's sham deal of promising land to tribals

Wetlands are priceless

In economic terms, they are worth US $70 billion per year

High & dry?

Conservation measures may hit Orissa fisherfolk

Credit facility

For European companies with excess emissions

Beefing up food security

New atlas analyses current patterns and serves up lasting solutions

Conditional support

Russia throws a lifeline to Kyoto Protocol, but at its own terms

Organic farming: Reaping mixed benefits

Contradictory state of affairs in two Uttaranchal villages highlights both potential and obstacles of organic farming. The paradox has cropped up …

Why Russia isn't signing Kyoto

Parched ricefields emit less methane

It's hard to picture paddy fields without water puddles. But by draining flooded rice fields for two days before the flowering stage, methane …

Flooded by misery

Global warming will wreck Bangladesh

Smells like trouble

The tax liability of New Zealand's farmers is set to rise because their bovine assets -- hold your breath -- belch and break wind!

US dawdling over climate change

Even as Europe reels under an unprecedented heat wave, US President George Bush remains unconvinced about the harsh reality of climate change. On …

Large-scale child deaths in tribal Maharashtra

from April to August this year, almost 300 children fell prey to malnutrition in just two blocks (Akkalkua and Taloda) of Maharashtra's Nandurbar …

Croaking

It has become difficult to find frogs and toads in Assam

Sharp acceleration in forestland diversion

The period between 1999 and 2003 has seen a sudden spurt in the diversion of forestland for non-forestry purposes. A recent collation of data of …

Clear out!

SC panel tells miners in Goa's wildlife havens

Russia ambiguous on Kyoto

With Russia blowing hot and cold on ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, the ninth conference of parties (COP-9) to the UN Framework Convention on …

Ground works

Wastewater treatment plant that also functions as a garden

A forceful endorsement

Kyoto Protocol gets a boost as Japan and eu ratify pact

Devil is in the details

A WTO meeting of ministers is hailed as a success

Compromise on climate

Nations manage to resuscitate the Kyoto Protocol by a watered-down agreement

Green future

The present phase of climate change talks ends with consensus on ways to implement the Kyoto Protocol

Battling climate change

Technologies exist to arrest global warming. But the political will to implement them is missing