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 …
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...
Bread, values and politics
The forthcoming World Food Summit must ensure that the umbrella of food security also extends to encompass the Southern nations' poor
Towards greener pastures
Irrespective of the costs incurred, corporate planning would do well to take into account the setting up of an effective pollution control mechanism
Up the wrong tree
A report on the US ban on shrimp exports from India, which appeared in this magazine recently, has elicited a sharp response from Earth Island …
Cowering behind lies
PETER B STONE presents an objective re-examination of the recent scare over the mad cow disease in Europe
For all that is green
Standing today at the threshhold of a doom 04t can happen actually in a split second in the form of a nuclear holocaust or a germ warfare, the …
The great American whims
The murky wrangle between environmental zeroes and heroes of the 104th Congress in the US becomes evident
A billowing problem
Promoting cigarette smoking and refusing to accept its resultant health hazards is but sheer avarice on the part of our politicians as well as …
Call of the wild
The magic wand of wildlife research is literally bringing to life that sleeping beauty called extinct biodiversity - the supposedly disappeared …
Under siege
The impasse in Manipur, which represents the festering unrest in the entire Northeast, needs a caring administrative policy, not bullets and raids
Technology is the key
With developed countries doing little to restrict global warming, a ray of hope comes from the development of favourable technologies
Good, but not enough
The efforts of South Asian countries at cooperation in the field of science and technology have a long way to go
The Korean conundrum
Demand management is better for both the environment and the economy. The sooner South Korea realises this, the easier it would be for the nation …
A musician's Yantra
Violinist-turned-environmentalist Aubrey Meyer has coined the phrase "contraction and convergence" and set the world thinking on the lines of …
Guiding myths
Folk knowledge is a treasure that has been passed on by word of mouth. It needs to be protected and documented before it is lost
A necessary drain
Draining of Lake Powell, formed after creation of a dam on the Colorado river, has become essential for restoring the ecology of the Grand Canyon …
Counter Productive
The post-Pokhran sanctions on Indian scientific institutions by the West could be a blessing in disguise for the country and its scientists
Catching viruses
Brand new infectious maladies such as Jacobson's disease have begun to plague the world, despite better sanitation and medication in developed …
Caught by the horns
The closure of the Idgah abattoir gets under the skins of meat eaters in the Capital, who have turned into unwilling vegetarians
When the birds come home
A symbiosis between bird and man provides a welcome winter home for the blacknecked crane, rediscovered in India after four decades
And miles to go before we meet
The North-South divide is not a fabrication: for three-fourths of the world, it is a fact of daily existence. Ignoring it will not make it …
Litany of disillusionment
Ravaged by ethnic strife, environmental disaster and crushing poverty, Ethiopians anticipate an uncertain future.