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