Monsoon this year has failed most of India, causing drought in even well-irrigated and rainfed areas. Ravleen Kaur reports how our food preferences are making us vulnerable to drought
Diminishing returns
Demand unsupplied
Coarse correction
A sustainable engineering disaster
@110 km/hr
Planners are yet to recognize the Sunderbans is increasingly vulnerable to rising sea level and intense cyclones. Despite the ...
Rooted to earth
For a change
Water beneath our homes
That sinking feeling
A baffled Bihar is struggling to provide food and shelter to three million people rendered homeless by a flood ...
Spate of neglect
Engineered flood
On the shelf?
Tribals in a trap
Heavy Weather
The hockey-stick curve
The problem of and solutions to climate change. The imperatives of transition on the eve of the Bali meet
Floods: Time for a rethink
This year in mid-July, the Baghmati, Budhi Gandhak and Lakhandai went into spate in Bihar. In Assam, several districts ...
Short circuit
On the face of it, the ambitious Sethusamudram project to bridge the east coast with the west coast of ...
Their Misery Continues
Post-tsunami relief workin Sri Lanka is bogged down by corruption, inefficiency and political machinations
Still life in waves
The visual media is into the business of producing images. Sometimes, just sometimes, they become iconic. For disasters there ...
Who stacks, how
Cement industry is not doing too badly
There's nothing august about Mumbai
July 26, 2005: It began raining at 11 am. In the next 24 hours, India's most populous city received ...
The father of the clean car
Stand up again
The tsunami is a chance to rebuild self-reliance and governance of the Nicobar Islands. suresh babu returns ...
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