Travelling in Jaduguda, RICHARD MAHAPATRA finds radioactivity doesn't stop at the mines
Miracles and methods
Cancun redux
Foul Debris
Ladakh on the move
Ladakh is the one region in India where sustainable development is the only way ahead. Dry toilets, water efficient ...
A blueprint
For compulsory environmental insurance for industries
Treating contaminated water
The problem of natural contamination of groundwater with highly toxic poisons like arsenic and fluoride is here to stay. ...
Small in size, big problem
Nanoparticles, as tiny as a billionth of a metre, pose a challenge to scientists and regulatory authorities alike. It ...
Miseducation in Bastar
An ethnobotanist flags the problem with education in tribal areas
The US' mixed record in green causes
A globalising world requires multilateralism to attain shared goals -- particularly the preservation of ecological security. While this can ...
Cutting out waste
The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has recently initiated ecofriendly pilot projects at its Bangalore aircraft division, which will not ...
Free flow
Water: industry is misusing it, but for how long?
Balancing act
Energy: economic and environmental compatibility
Black liquor
Agro-based pulp and paper: technological inability?
Flaying the environment
Tanneries: ill-managed, technologically challenged
Stranglehold
Pesticides: what's the way out?
A non-priority?
Environment managers do not count
By hook, crook or vision
Profits and a cleaner environment can sometimes complement each other. But Indian companies are still mired in poison. They ...
Desperately seeking experts
The environmental situation in India is grave -- our natural resources are getting depleted at an alarming rate and ...
Land is not less
Thanks to state apathy, tribals of Kerala are landless
Climate is changing, and the Sundarban residents can feel it
The Sundarban delta region in the Bay of Bengal, with 10,000 square kilometres of estuarine mangrove forest and 102 ...
Telephony regulators cannot stay speechless
The recent imbroglio on interconnectivity between cellular and fixed/WiLL-CDMA subscribers left many speechless. The response came via a proxy ...
The Imli Andolan
A policy failure
Renewable spirit and purer energy
An extension of the 'pursuit of inner purity' to purer forms of energy
Disparate narratives
Environmental history writing is beginning to look beyond colonial forestry