A Himalayan effort

PAKISTAN

Lethal lines

Economy over ecology

Talking about air

A tale of two districts

Why is Jhabua, and not kalahandi, a success story?

SOME HOPES AND LOTS OF FEAR

THE message of the citizens' fifth report on the state of india's environment

Pulicat Lake threatened

VENEZUELA

South korea

United Nations

Whitewashed by nature

Ecologically subsidised city

Kolkata's ecosystem can educate one about living creatively with nature

Northeast scores in ecology

Extreme wildfires are turning the world’s largest forest ecosystem from carbon sink into net-emitter

A boreal forest fire can release 10 to 20 times more carbon compared to a similarly sized fire in other ecosystems

Digging their own grave

Extracting minerals and ornamental stone in the Aravallis - despit its environmental costs - is such a flourishing economic activity that …

Coast Guard cleans up oil spill off Nicobar

Indian crews successfully contained a huge oil spill near the Great Nicobar island. Now, the ministry of environment and forests must assess the …

Rich description, poor analysis

ECOLOGY OF THE MOUNTAIN WATERS Edited by S D Bhatt and R K Pande Publisher: Ashish Publishing House, Delhi Price: Rs 400

Borrowed perspectives

When something as vast and complex as the social dynamics of the Green Revolution is depicted through the experiences of a handful, it is …

Green Rio-toric

Will the European Green parties' long agenda to change the world's environment have any takers?

Environmental scapegoats

Are goats responsible for increasing desertification? No, say many environmentalists and researchers. In fact, this hardy animal …

Beware of the developers

In its bid to get out of poverty, the Bihar government has finalised a plan to drain out lakes and convert them to farmlands. But it seems to be …

Future in the past

FUTURE OF PROGRESS: REFLECTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT Edited by Vandana Shiva, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Edward Goldsmith and Martin Khor …

Homeless blues

THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S REFUGEES. A HUMANITARIAN AGENDA·UNHCR, Oxford University Press, UK·Rs 625

Waste is being dumped in Russia

Galina Sdasyuk is a researcher at the Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, and is formulating a sustainable model of …