How to make the Commission for Sustainable Development work
It was only half a year ago, but events since the Johannesburg earth summit already make it …
WATER: Fading glories
Kashmir's dying lakes are choking their dependants
Managing water locally - a good model
In the Water and Sanitation Project implemented by the Tamil Nadu government with …
The way out of energy and climate change dilemmas
Providing energy to the poor does not make good business. Take electricity. Connecting the …
What happened to the Mayas?
With its awe-inspiring architecture and remarkable concepts of astronomy, the Maya was …
Managing railway waste
The Indian Railways is the second largest railway network in Asia. It is the biggest public …
Suffering SARS
Is the crisis spawned by this new viral infection a failure of global health governance?
The truth behind the Muthanga incident
The People's Judicial Enquiry Commission probe into the Muthanga incident in Kerala sheds …
Land is not less
Thanks to state apathy, tribals of Kerala are landless
Archaeology helps to unlearn too
Archaeology is the science that studies the remains of past cultures by investigating and …
Renewable spirit and purer energy
An extension of the 'pursuit of inner purity' to purer forms of energy
Saving Buddha's tree
Located on the banks of river Niranjana in Bodhgaya, south Bihar, the holy mahabodhi tree …
Super Market
Secretive. Exploitative. Is the market in Minor Forest Produce unmanageable? sopan joshi …
A watershed plan
Recurrent droughts and floods coupled with mass poverty, chronic unemployment and pervasive …
Faith in spate
Sabarimala bursting at the seams with devotees but environmental concerns ignored
Consigned to flames
Central and state authorities fiddle while underground coalfields burn in Jharia in the …
CoP-8: Nothing's brewing
For a fortnight, 1,456 delegates from 167 countries sat in conference halls, attended …
Oil that glitters
Petroleum fuels the engines of the global economy. So there is never enough of it. Oil …
Energised by oil
Energy policy has always been of vital importance in the US. That's why oil and gas …
The Caspian affair
The landlocked Caspian Sea is a cauldron of geopolitics. Its essential ingredients: oil and …