Challenges in Agriculture

Biotechnology issues pose tremendous challenges for developing countries. As a member of the World Trade Organisation, India will have to gear up …

Global Conservator

The US is taking its role as the protector of sea turtles worldwide too seriously, ignoring some important factors

People power

Movements to protest against the commercialisation of forests have gained momentum in Karnataka

A ban on common sense

Various restrictions imposed to protect the environment at Nanda Devi in the Himalaya have disturbed the rural lifestyle and economy, doing …

Lacking teeth

Why the French pollution tax is unlikely to produce results

14 Years Later..

...there's a Bhopal waiting to happen in the nooks and corners of the country. But the government is yet to take the right steps to ensure the …

Servicing The Corporate Underbelly

The murky dealings of the world's largest public relations agency

Spreading myths of money

The US is making a concerted effort to break down India's stand on climate change, with the active support of some Indian ngo s and business groups

Trees against deserts

Grow more trees around fields and along waterbodies to prevent desertification

Water visions

Past experiences in tackling river pollution have been disheartening. The recent call for recognising this water source as an ecosystem is a …

JFM in jeopardy

A proposal to regularise encroachments in forests creates a flutter

Human induced Famine

Official negligence turns a dry spell into a famine

A diverse bill

It is important to generate a national debate on the Biological Diversity Bill

Green Ads

The corporate world in Japan is wooing the environmentally conscious consumer by going green

Drumming it in

Should local communities pay for Western notions of 'global benefit'?

Healing Afghanistan

The karez system could solve the country's water problems

A mistake of judgment

Pioneering though the work has been, judicial activism has restricted the growth of a responsible and independent bureaucracy

Safe or smug?

The awareness of the looming threat of bioweapons has evoked a serious response from all over the world, except India

Confused and weak

The Biological Diversity Act has lost sight of what it originally set out to do

House sparrows want old homes

The ways of the royalty

Green has many shades

Green party in the pipeline must put people first

Works unwell

Employment guarantee scheme workers in Rajasthan do not get their dues

A climate change for the artisan

Will demand for eco-friendly goods mean a decline in artisnal skills?

PUBLIC OUTCRY

For the past several months, Delhi has been witness to a half-hearted government being prodded by a determined Supreme Court to clean the Yamuna. …