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