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People power

Kerala launches a movement -- of the people, by the people, for the people. Whether the …

Troubled history

Local communities have always been stuck in no man's land in the US

Deep in the Woods

When it comes to management of forests in the US, the timber industry and environmentalists …

Chaos theory?

Science takes on nature as climatologists try to predict El Nio patterns in an attempt …

Benchmark for success

The Songhai Centre in the Republic of Benin is a model for food self-sufficiency and …

A farce of a face-off

For 10 days in Kyoto the world saw highly moral arguments put forward by world leaders to …

Heated exchanges

Global politics took an upper hand over planetary ecology in Kyoto

High anxiety

Heated exchanges marked a conference which ended abruptly to hastily patch up a lukewarm …

Forecast: Clement climes

Given proper economic policies that fuel technological change, the world can rapidly switch …

Warm-up to kyoto

The industrialise countries have released billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the …

Global havoc

Changes in the weather patterns due to El Nio have resulted in a flood of natural …

Target India

There is no preparedness in India against El Nio, the Indian government does not even have …

Winds of change

El Nio, a weather phenomenon caused by a complex interaction between atmospheric and …

Controlling carbon

Afforestation of degraded land in India can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

C: Green planet

Will the world move towards a more fair and environmentally just future?

B: High drama

The forest convention was the most controversial issue at the Summit. However, the G-77, a …

Postponed

Issues concerning the earth's future took a backseat as unseemly politics ruled the day at …

Tall promises

The benefits of a watershed develqpment programme in Anantapur fail to trickle down to poor …

Rising from the ashes

Today more than two-thirds of Japan's land area is under forests as a result of a state-…

Victims of ignorance

More of everything?

Increasing acid rain. Higher temperatures. Water scarcity. Shrinking farmlands. Reducing …

Evangelistic edicts