Hot and anxious

Global climate change is today a spectre which allows for no ostriches. Scientific data is piling up to indict human activity as the source of …

EIA for Jindal coal mine in Chhattisgarh ignores threats

Naxalism works

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 ignored for years by the political …

Mining at all cost

REVIVING WISDOM

Rainwater is abundant in India. So is its mismanagement. This has led to a human-made water scarcity. The only way to solve modern India's water …

Immune virus

HIV bringsscience down on its knees

The parching of India's Venice

Kerala finds its rivers drying up and beginning to die

Islands in the river

The insular but self-sufficient existence of the marine nomads inhabiting the islands that pepper the Brahmaputra river as it winds across …

On the move

Duck rearing in India has come a long way. From a small-time activity, it has evolved to one in which entire flocks are transported across …

Goa's food bowl getting bare

Environmental degradation, changing land use patterns and poor administrative planning is resulting in the destruction of a unique agro-system in Goa.

Trapped in a quagmire

Pollution, disorderly urban growth and inadequate basic services are plaguing the Kathmandu valley and adversely affecting tourism, the valley's …

Sands of life

Beyond the Thar's austere barrenes, a battle of survival rages - between the region's treasure-trove of floral diversity and marauders like humans,…

Tiny terrors

Ecological changes have favoured their growth. They cannot be decimated. Then how do you cope with this rodent problem, asks ANAMITRA CHOUDHURY

The battle of the sexes

Women of the Onge tribe of hunter-gatherers defend their age-old culture against assault from the mainlanders

Sex on the brain

The battle of the genders intensifies as scientists discover that the differences begin, and perhaps end, at one of the human fundamentals: the brain

The essence of being

Is it the soul? Is it the mind? Or is it something outside the confines of the human body? Author most elusive of mental phenomenon of consciousness

Teasing death

The trials run before introducing drugs into the market are peppered with death-inviting inaccuracies and even brazen lies

The wilder side of environment

Why are pretty films on wildlife so much more interesting than no-holds-barred environmental documentaries?

Window without a green view

Critics question the degree of democracy and transparency involved in the Global Environment Facility's horsetrading of power between the North …

A native renaissance

Indigenous peoples of the world have been objects of downright apathy and brutal repression at worst, and mild tourist or academic interest at …

City scan

Will the future city, marked by responsible governance and a concerned citizenry, be able to address the problems dogging the world's urban centres?

Rape of the rock

The heavenly idyll of a carefree people, happy to welcome tourists, gay in their carnival, peaceloving and gastronomic, is being devastated due …

An agenda of incoherence

The grossly inadequate education as imparted in our schools has to answer for our general insensitivity towards the environment

Lessons of a drought

Water will become the most prized and precious commodity in the coming years. Internecine conflicts over the resource are already the order of …