Much ado about transparency

Or, nothing: so far as environment clearance is concerned

An environmental skirt to hide behind

In a dark time reason takes a backseat, and propaganda can get rash. To convince 'nose-in-the-air' liberals that Saddam is really a bad boy, he …

The fumes of the aircraft

The environmental implications of the recent aviation boom

Neo-liberal verbiage

The draft National Environment Policy is replete with numerous contradictions and flaws

Green hope and mockery

After a 10-year crusade, Sri Lankan environmentalists finally got what they wanted: mandatory environmental impact assessments for development …

A town damned

Yazali, the first commercial town built by Nyishi tribals, might soon be submerged

Desperately seeking experts

The environmental situation in India is grave -- our natural resources are getting depleted at an alarming rate and there is an acute paucity of …

Damned Projects

State operations surrounding three hydel schemes are causing controversy. In the Uttaranchal hills, there are allegations of repression. In …

If projects are for people

Then why are their voices being muffled?

Deja vu

Coal based thermal power plants come back to haunt villages in Udupi district, Karnataka

Amongst footloose workers

Reminiscences from a visit to Alang about 10 years back

Driven to the extreme

Rampant pollution and state inaction forces farmers to attack and kill a miner in Goa

Project disaster

A natural gas pipeline which is expected to wind its way through a forest area in western Thailand could jeopardise 14 protected areas and the …

Unhearthed

Human encroachment has created imbalance in the avian ecology. Better management practices are needed for the conservation of species diversity

Deep Concerns

Environmental groups wage legal war to contain mining operations in Karnataka's Kudremukh National Park

Not a dead society yet

What class do you need to travel business class?

Black attack

Has the Union ministry of environment and forests laid malicious siege to Dahanu taluka, in Maharashtra's Thane district?

Park in trouble

Proposal for an oil exploration site inside the Kirthar National Park outrages environmentalists in Pakistan

On paper

The Green Rating Project (GRP) of the Centre for Science and Environment was conceived as a means to track the environmental performance of India'…

Setting Out

The Indian automobile industry got a rude shock on October 29 when the Centre for Science and Environment released the environment rating of one …

Relocation pangs

Shifting of industries to Bawana will affect groundwater reserves

Road maze

The controversy around the Kandi road through the Corbett Tiger Reserve

Barring the muck

The Tihar jail exemplifies how efficient waste management not only makes our surroundings clean, but also endows us with economic benefits. What …

Valley of despair

Unrestrained chromite mining takes Sukinda valley to the edge of an abyss