The US and us

Seeing land for trees

A southern fault

The South is to blame for the shattering of a dream called Rio

A disease called pollutionitis

Most of Delhi's urban elite suffer from this disease which makes them "rationally irrational". The disease is accompanied by finger-pointitis and …

Servicing The Corporate Underbelly

The murky dealings of the world's largest public relations agency

Green has many shades

Green party in the pipeline must put people first

Dying for water

It is unfortunate that the conflicts arising over water issues are dealth with by force

That 'E' word again

Most Northern groups that dominate the civil society opinion-making process within the climate convention have consistently ignored Southern …

Conditions to aid and trade

World Resources Institute objects to criticism that Northern groups are arm-twisting developing countries into reducing greenhouse gas emissions

When laws make out laws

Everybody's a loser. Forest guards die for laws that cannot be defended. Poor people get exploited. Veerappan rules the jungle. Sandalwood trees …

Whither Green parties?

Voters' support is likely to remain a protest against major European parties

Wishful thinking

The finance minister's budget speech has come and gone. As analysts sit down to shred it to bits, Down To Earth looks at a wish list of …

Whose CARBON hypocrisy?

Should Northern groups campaign to stop fossil fuel funding in the South?

Beware the modified wolf

Will bureaucrats choose to throw farmers and ecology to the mercy of multinational corporations by preparing the way for cultivation of …

Shawls, an antelope and the law

The question is not just of farming chiru. It is about the policy that a country should have towards wildlife conservation, forest dwelling …

Coming out of coma

A decline in its funds and erosion in its mandate have made the United Nations Environment Programme virtually ineffective. Bharat H Desai looks …

No Go

The South managed to make its presence felt, but this was due to the US-Europe rift

For common sense

Down To Earth articles on shahtoosh and Veerappan provoke comment. We decided to excerpt them. But first, the editor's rejoinder

Law of no returns

Kings of forests

The control of Naxalites over forests is total and overwhelming

Drought is in the mind

GOOD NEWS: There is more evidence to show that water harvesting can go a long way in dealing with drought and solving the water crisis, and even …

Political harvest

Report card: A scheme that can help solve the water crisis has become a tool to promote political interests of the ruling party Success level: Poor

Learning the mantra

Report card: The government realised its failures and learned from the civil society. Despite cases of corruption and some errors in planning, …

Piloting the train to ruin

Floats for green Goa