Battle of the brackets
The Plan of Implementation is a list of vague expressions
World's biggest trade fair
The US used partnerships to counter multilateralism
'Let's put our cards on the table'
Veteran UN negotiator and head of the UNEP during the Rio summit, Mostafa Tolba, reasons …
Turncoat 'thieves'
Former teak smugglers become official forest guards
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 …
High and dry
India's energy supplies depend entirely on the vagaries of the market
Beyond oil
Energy security will not come with more drilling. The faster we realise this, the better
Consigned to flames
Central and state authorities fiddle while underground coalfields burn in Jharia in the …
Faith in spate
Sabarimala bursting at the seams with devotees but environmental concerns ignored
A watershed plan
Recurrent droughts and floods coupled with mass poverty, chronic unemployment and pervasive …
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 …
Archaeology helps to unlearn too
Archaeology is the science that studies the remains of past cultures by investigating and …
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
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 …
WATER: Fading glories
Kashmir's dying lakes are choking their dependants