India has been plagued with environmental problems, especially air and water. But there is no voice of protest or joint civic effort to change anything
A look at the future
When wealth is not health
Popular science
No Headway
The just-concluded international conference on climate change in Buenos Aires saw the developing countries ranged against the US which ...
Why are we all falling ill
The pursuit of unsustainable economic growth, bad development policy, lack of good science, and poverty are a prescription for ...
Ground zero within
What was the social yield of the nuclear tests conducted by India? As the sensitive electronic devices measured the ...
The turkey buzzards
Facing resistance to the introduction of gmos in the North, business houses are waiting to take advantage of ...
In wonderland
Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh is a many-splendoured wonder where indomitable political will and the tribals have proved that the ...
Crossing the rainbow
With the coming of the Rajiv Gandhi Mission on Watershed Development, a major change took place in the degraded ...
Bad Medicine
First there were the quacks. Then came the mass manufacturers of substandard herbal drugs and cosmetics. Cashing in on ...
Fireworks follow SMOKE
Tobacco companies will foot the medical bills of smokers who have cancer under an agreement with the US state ...
Skewed approach
When government agencies do give out information, they think it is above reproach
Closed systems, open minds
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has been doing research on health and environment in the public interest. ...
Tall promises
The benefits of a watershed develqpment programme in Anantapur fail to trickle down to poor farmers
Without a trace
Medicinal plant biodiversity is rapidly vanishing in India and the government has still to come up with a ...
Victims of ignorance
Green puzzle
A cross-section of opinions in response to 'Dark truths and lost woods' (pages 31-41) by ANIL AGARWAL
Frontier guards
Invaded and ravaged by germs and pathogens every moment of its existence, the human body has developed its own ...
Infamy and after
Minamata in Japan and Bhopal in India. Two of the worst cases of ...
Disjointed and confused
Because it means too many things to as many people, joint forest management in India will remain elusive to ...
The other course
Traditional curative systems like ayurveda, homoeopathy, acupuncture... are being revived as alternative medicine. But in India and the Orient, ...
The second coming
Claims of successful regimes go flying out of the window as malaria and TB, aided by fresh drug-resistant traits, ...
What's in a neem?
A lot, apparently. Neem -Azadirachta indica -and the I?roducts derived from it have traditionally been widely used for centuries, ...
Plagued by rats
In the months of August and September 1994, panic gripped the country as news of the plague epidemic in ...
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