Saving Buddha's tree

Located on the banks of river Niranjana in Bodhgaya, south Bihar, the holy mahabodhi tree under which Buddha sat and meditated is infested with …

Environment Day Special

Carbon dioxide concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii

Loneliness of Narmada Human

Thirty years on, it remains the only fossil of early humans found on the subcontinent

In search of the palatable atta

An agricultural scientist discovers why some rotis are tastier than others

Perseverance pays

Learning from Lorenzo's oil

In strict confidence

A Sri Lankan company profits by recycling confidential paper

Seeds of starvation

Intensive agriculture is destroying China's soil

Useful excreta

A Sri Lankan company uses elephant dung to make paper and profits

Sanitise and rule

How yellow fever became a ruse for the US to occupy Cuba

Sea change

Photographs confirm Patagonian glaciers are melting into oblivion

The Radium Girls

ChevronTexaco on trial

October 21, 2003. High-level corporate lawyers from ChevronTexaco sit in the same packed muggy courtroom as bare-breasted Amazonian men and women …

Rs 16 lakh crore

This is the least value of "unproductive" work done by women in a year in India, and it is close to government's annual budget

Pantabhat - well slept rice

Rice has been a staple food of West Bengal from antiquity and thus was grown in abundance all across the region. At one time, 60 varieties of …

Scientists in the fields

Farmers in South Andamans benefit with guidance from the Central Agricultural Research Institute

Lakhs out of lac

A village in Madhya Pradesh prospers by reverting to its traditional means of livelihood

Engulfed by the ravines

Once a throbbing rural business centre, Birahrua, in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, is now haunted by devilish gullies

Missionary women doctors in nineteenth century Delhi

Throughout the 1860s a frail young European woman with a medicine chest was a conspicuous presence at the women's ghats of the river Yamuna in …

Reviving the Tharparker cattle breed

An NGO in Barmer has launched Tharparker animal breed improvement programmes in Minjrad and another village in the district. Two pure Tharparker …

Children once again

A chat and books persuade parents in Shravasti to not marry off young girls

A road set free

Latur gains from anti-encroachment drive on farm roads. State takes its cue

Poop-corn culture

The Inca empire thrived on innovations to boost maize production

The root cause

The world is vulnerable to oilspills

But most nations are ill-equipped to protect biodiversity havens

Death of a Neem tree

An open letter to the Prime Minister