I don’t want my fingerprints taken

Resisting biometric data  

Copycats in nature

Jungle babblers feast while bulbuls imitate their hunting style

Road to chaos

The beginning of uncontrolled consumerism is the end of a planned city

A weed maligned

A fearsome weed in the Rann of Kutch is hardly, as is feared, sucking the land to death

Not so bitter

Fears of neem patenting by Western MNCs are blown out of proportion

Trade-off- human rights and the market

The clarion call of open markets could override the North's 'insistence' on linking trade with human rights and environmental issues

Heart to heart

A tongue-in-cheek report of a conversation overheard at a bar during a meeting of the Commission for Sustainable Development.

Physics journal fosters spirit of enquiry

Physical Review, which began in 1893 as a monthly journal of indifferent repute, has evolved into a standard for the international physics community.

People are not the planet's pollutants

The consumerist tendency of our society has resulted in the branding of population explosion as the villain in a world that has place for everyone'…

Education must boost unity, end superstition

Learning in the present social context should lay more stress on inculcating social and ethical values that would bring Indians closer to each other.

Growing old in the wild

The conventional belief is that animals don't live into old age, but succumb much earlier to "unnatural" causes. Recent research, however, …

Only males need apply

With an increasing number of joint forest management projects being implemented, it is vital that forest departments become more gender sensitive.…

Defining environment stories

In the Western approach to stories on the environment, topics are wrapped in neat packages: from rainforests to big dams. But writing on rural …

Early education is the key to reducing birth rate

Every rupee invested on four years of primary education for girls would yield returns worth Rs 10 of investment on advertising contraceptive …

The future folding into itself

Truth is what my father taught me

A look at today's environmental issues through the eyes of two well-known poets, exclusive to Down To Earth

Have we forgotten Rio already?

India has failed in the basic work that it needed to do even before going to Rio -- define the pathway of sustainable development for itself

Bring scientists out of their ivory labs

There have been many a slip between developing technology and applying it to everyday life

It's a cow's life

Cattle in western Rajasthan struggle for survival as pastures continue to shrink

Killed by indifference

When two young people die in a highway accident, is it destiny or a callous and indifferent administration?

Cultivating wood for fuel

Faced with food surpluses, farmers in the UK are being encouraged to plant trees on part of their land and sell wood as fuel for heating or …

Impolitic moves

The recent Cabinet shake-up could spell trouble for India on the eco-conservation front

Environment for change

Shifting over to sustainable agriculture requires a new climate for convincing and aiding farmers to change the existing practices

Dreams from six world's apart

The agonised voice of the Warli and Kokna tribes of Thane (Maharashtra) reach out to say, through Pradip Prabhu...

Loving trees is not enough

Can merely conserving trees save the environment?