The Centre for Science and Environment ( CSE) releases the environmental rating of the pulp and paper sector. Participants laud CSE efforts and call for a "change in the mindset of industry captains"
Digging the earth
Blues for the big cats
Confrontation mine
The milk that ate the grass
India may be the largest producer of milk in the world, but at an incredible cost. In achieving this ...
Win some, lose most
To find out what the Union Budget has in store for science and the environment, Down ...
DYING FOR PROGRESS
The growth of cities and industries has severely affected the environment. The spread of disease has increased with the ...
DISTRESS SIGNALS
New diseases are emerging with changes in the environment, some old diseases are also staging a comeback
GREEN REMEDIES
The status of health can be improved with proper environment management
Quarry in quagmire
Caught in a death trap, Jharia residents await doomsday. While BCCL openly displays a let-them-die attitude and the government ...
Saving the earth
Techniques developed by villagers in Himachal Pradesh can be integrated into plans to reclaim rocky wasteland in the hills
Never give up
Strange but true
Existing clean-up technology or treatment plants have failed to check pollution by our errant industries, especially the chlorine-based ...
Living on a minefield
Plans to set up lignite and China clay mines in the biologically diverse and rich Madayipara plateau of ...
The spear pierceth...
Irian Jaya, in Indonesia, is witnessing the descretion of its rainforests by a mining firm; an oft-repeated story, one ...
Digging out trouble
Wisdom from an obscure archipelago
In Down To Earth's first Country Report, ANIL AGARWAL and SUNITA NARAIN look at Papua New Guinea, its short ...
A tinge of green
Issues relating to the environment, though not on top of the agenda, did make their presence felt in the ...
Digging their own grave
Extracting minerals and ornamental stone in the Aravallis - despit its environmental costs - is such a flourishing economic ...
Despite ban, mines thrive in Sariska reserve
A Supreme Court order demanding immediate closure of about 250 mines in and around the Sariska Tiger Reserve has ...
Boosting industry will tax resources base
Budgetary provisions aimed at giving a fillip to industry, will add to the burden on the country's resources.
