Nowhere to go

What happens to living beings when climate change threatens even national parks and nature reserves

Mangroves' rescue act

Scientists stress that conserving mangroves will provide an important buffer to save coastal regions from the ravages of sea level rise due to …

Warm cold relationship

Earth may have a 1,500-year temperature cycle that is governed by minor changes in the sunlight

Reptilian recovery

Once threatened, the gharials get afresh lease of life at the Kukrail Reserve Forest near Lucknow

Costly cleanup

Factory workers engaged in cleaning bomb factories in the US may be exposed to radiation

Pollen rain

Breaking past records, the city Atlanta was enveloped by a coat of pollen from the trees of northern Georgia

Shifting blame

Avian diversity in the Northeast is better off with shifting cultivation than selective logging and monoculture forests

In favour of wetlands

Benefits from upstream irrigation projects cannot replace those derived from natural floodplains

Salted lands of Australia

Bad cropping practices and ill-planned water management leads to salted Australian farmland

Worthy winners - Goldman prize

Julia Bonds, a grandmother living in the state of West Virginia, usa, has been awarded the 2003 Goldman environmental prize for her fearless …

Postponed

Issues concerning the earth's future took a backseat as unseemly politics ruled the day at the just concluded Earth Summit II SUPRIYA AKERKAR …

More fuelwood = more forests?

In India, where 500 million people out of about 1,000 million depend on forests for their survival, any 'sweet-talk' about wood consumption is …

A conversion problem

Catalytic converters, devices meant to clean car exhausts, are backfiring on the environment

A very heavy metal load

Waters of the gulf of Mannar and Palk bay are contaminated with industrial pollutants like lead

B: High drama

The forest convention was the most controversial issue at the Summit. However, the G-77, a strident opposer, failed to act as a united force

It's El Nino

The maverick child has brought about weather changes that threaten the unique ecosystem of Galapagos Islands

Fading beauty

Changing climate conditions in the Northeast are wiping out the fragile orchids. Will other species follow?

Out of Africa

Guess what is bringing death and disease to the coral reefs of the world? Dust from African deserts

Dying fields

The Green Revolution and use of high-yielding varieties has led to depletion of vital micronutrients

To prevent overkill

Medicinal values of marine life make it vulnerable to overexploitation. But it is now possible to artificially produce such qualities

Sweat and shiver

A review of climate studies projects what's in store: colder winters, hotter summers, drought, storms and lots worse

Torn apart

Forest fragmentation can have detrimental effects on the flora and fauna, leading to a loss of biodiversity

Climate on a skid

Global warming is likely to be far greater and faster than previous estimates, says the latest report of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction …

Rich bias

THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST Bjørn Lomborg · Cambridge University Press · Cambridge · 2001 · Pages: pp 515 &…

Our broken system of environmental clearance

Environmental impact assessment has become a convoluted exercise, designed for futility