Channels of change

Two villages in Uttar Pradesh have reversed the trend of migration by digging six kilometres of channels to bring water to drought-hit farms

A Nationalised Nightmare

One of the main reasons given for nationalising the coalmines of India was to protect workers from accidents. What followed was large-scale …

Kerala's backwaters carry modern-day brunt

Their ecosystem is under threat but no one seems to care

Fatal attraction

Living with lions

Spam in fishing net

Water ATM

Sarvajal makes clean drinking water accessible to people

Fish and a philosophy

A cooperative in Kolkata shows the way for urban sewage management

The anatomy of congestion

Travel today is relatively faster, and people across the world are travelling more than ever before. But at a giant cost: urban roads are choked …

High yields in Andhra's pesticide-free village

Monsoon-friendly Assam reeling under drought

Bitter WTO pill

India, Brazil help the North force its way at Hong Kong

Goa's disappearing khazan farms dying a slow death

Employment guarantee scheme not in sync with Mastapur's needs

A year after Kalinganagar firing, tribal India refuses to shine

Field science

The age of discovery

Research in rice genomics could be the key to eradicating hunger through environmentally sustainable methods, says Latha Rangan

Australian town says no to drinking recycled sewage

New report on skewed urbanisation in India

Street food vendors threatened after court ruling

Bureaucracy restricts potential of Orissa's pani panchayats

Tadoba tiger reserve An unsafe haven

No return of the native

Food crisis grips Bangladesh after flood and cyclone Sidr

Nagpur plots pro-poor plan to help land grabbers