Sprucing up
...production techniques could go a long way in creating a pollution-free milieu as the final aim would be to achieve a no-waste company discipline
Urbane and stupid
Sitting in urban comforts and planning for a rural set-up can only spell doom for any activity on the development front, for the village is a …
Wealth engenders debt...
... seems like a paradox, but when that wealth is produced by affluent countries through importing undervalued resources of the poorer regions,…
After the last tree is felled
'Sustainable development' cannot afford to be another epithet in the lexicon of development, but should dispel myths about human-made and natural …
The silver spoon
Development in the small-farm sector holds the key to a holistic progress in the Asia-Pacific countries
Good but not true
The United Nations does not take into account sustainability of the environment in assessing progress using the Human Development Index, …
Turning to God
Godfrey Baseley, the man behind "The Archers", BBC's popular serial on agricultural information, is dead. His 'gossip' was valuable advice to the …
An alternative perspective
While small irrigation projects are the need of the hour, the government is obsessed with big projects
Order, Order
Powerful words that provided the base for judicial activism in India. How potent are the judgments delivered in favour of the environment? Will …
W(h)ither Indian science?
High-profile science need not be the cornerstone of Indian science policy. What is required is to give more thrust to existing methodologies and …
Africa awake
The new US foreign policy on environment, if well implemented, should shake African nations out of a long stupor into tackling massive eco-…
A beaten path
Suresh Prabhu is by no means breaking new ground. He is merely mouthing the same promise made time and again, but never fulfilled, by his predecessors
Small change
The Union budget 1999-2000 does not give enough impetus to the environment sector
Humans may follow
Warped science
Aping Western trends in science has given Indian research priorities a skewed perspective
Exit, green fences
Hedgerows, reservoirs of biodiversity, quietly fade into extinction in Kerala
Looking forward to the past
Portrait of a village indifferent to the urge to move with the times
Eternal quest
Fascination and challenges of the search for extra-terrestrial life
Surviving on wood
Collecting fuelwood provides a basis for survival for the poor around Dharwar
Thais dig deep into wallets for songbirds
Doves can cost a fortune in Thailand, where the people pay heavily to domesticate the bird.
The invisible mountain
Hanuman: man, monkey or langur?
The Hindu monkey god Hanuman comes across as a mosaic of different beings
A tryst winth death
The land of the Brahmaputra recurrently reels under terrible onslaughts of a scourge
Limp target
Polio eradication targets strike a wrong note, while the WHO waxes eloquent
Inviting the plague
With all its wealth and affluence, Surat remains the least concerned about health and hygiene