Sun, sea and garbage

La farce

Kitchen strike for toilets

Women of a Maharashtra hamlet give husbands an ultimatum-build toilets or go without food

FIGHTING FOR AIR

Weighed down by extremely high levels of particles in the air, some Indian cities seem to be coming of age with regard to vehicular air pollution.…

Search for a good hearth

While cook stoves in India are becoming fuel-efficient, they are not improving air quality, finds study

The flush, the city and the river

For the modern Indian city, the principle behind management of water and waste is a simple one: flush and forget. Not surprisingly, most cities …

Fading colours

Natural dyes, now popular in the West, are yet to make it big in the Indian market, reports R V Singh (Read full article)

Naxalism works

When McDonald’s ate crow

The UK’s longest case was a PR disaster for the fast food giant

Power of concentration

India has every reason to push for concentrated solar power projects. But the technology has failed to pick up because of poor planning

Growing organic tea in northeast India is a difficult task

Why Ganga Action Plan is a pipe dream

Migrants denied basic human rights, says study on Kolkata

One-third of India’s population are migrants, but the country is yet to make a policy or plan for them, says collaborative study report by …

Elementary failure

Since the Right To Education Act came into force on April 1, 2010, India has been witnessing an experiment that involves parents in enforcing a …

E-waste posing health risks for workers in scrapyards

India not on course for clean air target

No freeloaders

Bauxite mines in Andhra Pradesh draw tribals' ire

Just like a forest

Analog forestry mimics a forest to create an economically productive and ecologically diverse landscape

Let’s talk

On February 24, Centre for Science and Environment raised the curtains for the Anil Agarwal Dialogues on green clearances. The two-day conclave …

The energy divide

Chronic power deprivation in some districts raises serious policy issues

Forest to farms

India's paper industry now sources more wood from farmers. Why does it still demand forestland?

Cancun redux

Reflecting upon the fifth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization at Cancun, a Down To Earth editorial (see: "How not to lose …

Arctic rush driven by desire to control hydrocarbon deposits, shipping routes

Indigenous civil engineers

Traditional earth diggers and masons, who mined the Bhatti area of the Aravallis for decades, dig in their heels as the Delhi administration …