Investment trick

How ecologically damaging projects are perpetuating a fallacy

Non-monetary indicator of poverty

Our policy makers should move away from the income criterion for estimating poverty and take cognisance of other indicators

This DROUGHT is sponsored by Govt. of India

Who is really behind our water problems?

Cipla's bitter pill for MNCs

Several eyebrows have been raised over the Cipla offer to supply anti- aids drugs at one-third the current price to developing countries like …

Bush discards green

US President George Bush calls for a steep hike in the production of oil, gas, coal and nuclear energy and drilling for oil and gas in Alaska

Coming out of coma

A decline in its funds and erosion in its mandate have made the United Nations Environment Programme virtually ineffective. Bharat H Desai looks …

Gujarat faces forced land aquisition in name of industrialisation

Tourism plans for Andamans go on, tsunami notwithstanding

Terrible magnate

Martyr and a court ruling

Wetlands in Howrah still ravaged by real estate

Heritage valley in danger

The Valley of Flowers in Uttarakhand, a World Heritage Site, may have been damaged in the recent floods in the state. A look at what makes this …

Before the last trumpet

Captive elephants of Kerala suffer because there is no proper policy for their management and welfare

Don’t just cash in on tigers

Nature-based tourism: from rhetoric to reality

Holistic approach

Civil society and all government agencies are responsible for sustainable development

Among the non-believers

A forester’s  perspective on green governance

Branding from origin

The French system of orgin labelling can be adopted for Indian medicine

Balding the urban landscape through shortsighted fiscal policies

India’s power mess

Solar energy could be the silver bullet

No mermaid fairytale

A scientific conservation programme notwithstanding, the dugong remains in peril

The loss of our breeds

Buy an Indian breed from Australia

International dump yard

Ship breaking thrives in South Asia because of weak laws

India and climate change

Value of deforestation?

Environment protection act reduced to a travesty of their mandate

Nature cure from India