High-five

Scientists are rediscovering the value of the unique combination of five products of the cow, especially as pesticide

Feathers, nails, bones and blood!

Time has come for tribal medication to be revalidated

An Old tree and some wise men

Unsustainable practices seem to be a suicidal trait in the fashionable development concepts of today

At the recieving end

Spare parts any takers?

The ethics of transplanting an organ from one species to another is debatable as the dangers involved are too many and unknown

Plastic Peril

Plastics are useful, but their use and disposal should be bound by a strong policy

Power pedaling

Indian cities are being engulfed by vehicular pollution. Under such circumstances, the electric autorickshaw and bicycle offer some respite

Drying wetlands

Beyond the tigers of Sunderbans: A closer look at the leeches and the beautiful blue devil

Needed: a new yardstick

Gross National Product may be an inadequate measure of economic activity when environmental damage occurs

Plugging the breaches

Can the people of the Sundarbans find a viable solution to the problem of flooding?

Wonderdrugs!

Misconceptions about steroids and the real reasons for their bad reputation

A thought for food

Experience shows that agriculture benefits far more from overall macro-economic reforms

Elephantine blues

A rise in the elephant population in the Chandaka reserve forests raises the basic question of ecological management keeping human needs in mind

A question of ethics

What does a doctor do when confronted with an hiv -positive case

Monument to hunger

The 1784 famine of Lucknow region and a nawab's philanthropic gesture gave us a magnificent monument

The turmoil beneath

How landslides of the 1998 kind in Garhwal can be prevented

Inclement climate

Climate change discussions should focus on issues that are of importance to the South

Killing is no answer

Here are 18 steps to deal with monkeys that enter human habitation areas. They do not involve killing them

A brief mania called Hawkins

Barely 100 out of the 5,000 present at the Stephen Hawking public lecture actually understood what he said. Some felt Hawking had endorsed the …

The next disruption

Eco-friendly last ride

Booms are not forever

An audacity of hope

The tourist does leave a footprint

But eco-tourism could still be people friendly  

The facade of sharing

Public-private partnership is more about dividing: risks go to the public agency, profits to the private