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Raining frogs

Will the deluge end?

Fear factor

Grasshoppers, like humans, indulge in emotional eating

New leader, old challenge

India’s first PM born after Independence will face the old problem of poverty eradication

Romance and thrills in the Amazonian jungle

INTO THE HEART Kenneth Good with David Chanoff Publisher: Penguin Books, England Price: L 6.99

Hungary resents Slovak dam

Hungarians are raising environmental slogans against opening of the Gabcikovo dam's sluice gates by Czechoslovakia. The dam is built on the river …

Awareness growing about Amazon destruction

AMAZON WATERSHED -- THE NEW ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION George Monbiot Publisher: Michael Joseph, London Price: Pounds 17.99

The earth may shake, but life goes on

The fragile ecology of the Garhwal Himalaya witnessed another season of cloudbursts, landslides and flash floods -- made worse by the 1991 …

Trekking to balanced development

Gandruk, a small Nepali village on a popular trekking route, will be visited by more than 80,000 tourists before the year ends. But an unusual …

Death of the Indus delta

It was from the port towns of this region that Arab dhows laden with merchandise set sail for distant towns in the days of yore. Today, …

Ethics dumped

The world over, the pockets where the poor live are used as environmental dumps. PAUL WAPNER debates the environmental ethics of International …

Sustainability and the southern perspective

European environmentalists tackle Third World concerns of irresponsible overconsumption by northern countries

Pied pipeline

Construction of a new oil terminal and a pipeline to Russia might affect the Black Sea ecology

"History does not repeat itself"

A pioneer in the field of environmental history, Donald Worster of the University of Kansas in the US highlights the importance of the subject …

Bay watch!

COASTAL WATERS OF THE WORLD: TRENDS, THREATS, AND STRATEGIES·Don Hinrichsen· Island Press, Washington, 1997· 276 pages

Green incentives

The German government's idea of ecological tax may seem impressive, but it hasn't got too many takers. There are too many contradictions, say …

'Supercede capital'

JOEL KOVEL , Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies at Bard College in Annandale, New York, is best known as the Green Party's candidate in the …

Grassroot environmentalists

Protective wasps

Speeding towards ecological catastrophe