As the Himalayan country's forestry scheme for the poor reaps rich dividends, its government entrusts more degraded areas to the underprivileged. The only hurdle for a complete environmental revival seems to be bureaucratic inertia
Orphans of the river
Farming for the future
Raw Deal
A mixed bag
The Bangladesh government sends thin plastic bags packing, but has Dhaka seen the last of them? Pinaki Roy ...
Adrift and Isolated
A proposed blanket ban on scientific prawn culture in Chilika lake is a total let-down for the fiskerfolk
Forest war
Naxalism started as a movement against land alienation. Today it has become a popular movement against natural resource ...
Kings of forests
The control of Naxalites over forests is total and overwhelming
Law of no returns
Classified ?
The data is rudimentary. The analysis is poor. And is kept secret
System error
The death of India's cancer control programme and the rise of cancers
Power trickles down
Successful cooperatives compel Maharashtra government to hand over control of irrigation facilities to farmers
Time To Introspect
Policymakers must put public health above everything else to chart the future. Consumers must demand change so ...
Warming warnings
The debate whether climatic changes trigger calamities continues. But there is no doubt that environmental degradation wrecks havoc on ...
Chain effect
Environmental degradation causes a plethora of problems. Mismanagement and destruction of natural resources leave people even more vulnerable
Old as the hills
Shifting agriculture on the hillsides has been going on for centuries. In recent times, it has been blamed for ...
Wildlife harvesting
Sustainable harvesting of chiru may help save the Tibetan antelope
Manufactured Chaos
How the Delhi government evaded the Supreme Court order on CNG to engineer a state of anarchy?
Drying wetlands
Ladakh's high altitude wetlands are under severe stress from the livestock population as well as tourist influx
No respite for Ridleys
Turtle excluder devices can reduce turtle deaths. But a web of politics and government laxity prevents their use
Tanned Order
Authorities and the leather industry owners in Tamil Nadu dodge court orders, while a few individuals raise voices ...
Voices from Making Water Everybody's Business Talking about water
Water is bound to dominate the agenda of the country's politicians and planners in the future Though ...
Betrayed
Nepal's forest bureaucracy prepares for the funeral of the much-hailed community forest management programme
Sealed fate
The de-sealing drive of the Delhi government is yet to take-off as a bureaucratic maze greets factory owners
Battling climate change
Technologies exist to arrest global warming. But the political will to implement them is missing