Challenges ahead

For long-lasting commitment, climate negotiations will have to keep all three goals in mind. Can they be tied together?

Vehicles in China

Pedalling to a new dawn

As India goes into economic overdrive, the urban explosion and its attendant traffic nightmares cry out for a radical alternative. DERK J VAN DER …

Polluted and ignored

Talk about air pollution in India and everybody thinks of the four metropolitan cities. But the ambient air quality in even smaller cities and …

We, the people

Industrialised countries uneasy at the prospect of a shift from traditional political rights for the individual to rights that link communities …

Opinions

Here comes the ozone brigade

Indian manufacturers of CFCs are no longer fatalistic about winding up, but they are banding together to overcome ploys that will gag attempts to …

Turned turtle

Fabled Fruits!

Taking off from its climatic range - Himalayan to tropical - India has much to offer in terms of fruit diversity. Large varieties of major fruits …

The changing face of India's lakes

Lakes are being lost or altered because of the disruption of natural processes by intensification of agriculture, urbanisation, pollution and …

The salt of the earth

Moves are afoot to convert the brackish Pulicat lake into a freshwater one to supply water to Madras city and authorities seem to have little …

The broken mirror

A pristine lake that once drew birds of several species today lies clogged with weeds, a victim of unplanned economic development.

Making the most of little plots of land

A Filipino research institute has blended agro-forestry and bio-intensive forming technicques to help small farmers produce more, without further …

A tale of two peoples

Just as Brazil and Nigeria lie Geographically parallel to each other along the Atlantic, the fates of their seem sealed in a similar fashion. …

In a favour of a lesser good

The latest round of negotiations on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species has left little doubt that the South must fight …

Destination Saturn

A lot of effort has gone into programming Cassini, the last of the bigger spaceships produced by NASA. But the mission is unlike others in that …

The last frontier

The Earth's overexploited seas are in danger of turning into the Last Frontier. In giant, demonic trawls, the World's oceans are being …

Ghana's gold enriches MNCs, not its own people

Uttaranchal's pastoralists deliberate over saving their depleting pastures

Uttaranchal's pastoralists discuss depleting pasturelands

Mass movement

Singapore: Breathing Easy

It's all about taming traffic: keeping a tab on the number of vehicles on the road, and promoting public transport. Singapore, one of the …

Naxalism works

Many takers of a park

REVIVING WISDOM

Rainwater is abundant in India. So is its mismanagement. This has led to a human-made water scarcity. The only way to solve modern India's water …

Hold Up!

The stage seemed set for another climate meeting to serve the economic interests of the US better than the threat of global warming