What ails the Jarawa people in the Andamans?

Contact with the outside world has exposed the Jarawas to various dangers. Is isolation the best way to conserve? A debate

A simple device

But the invention of the stethoscope revolutionised medical diagnosis

It only gets hotter

Potato test for government

The crash in potato price is triggering a wave of suicides in several states. Will the NDA government's ambitious Price Stabilisation Fund help …

Comfort backpack

An improved plucking basket promises to alleviate muscular pain and fatigue, two major health problems faced by tea garden workers

Insured by community

Death of a tribal woman in Madhya Pradesh prompts community to provide speedy insurance benefits to women during emergencies

Immortal, yet going extinct

Despite the ability to regenerate its heart and brain, axolotl, an amphibian found only in Mexico, is close to extinction

Bee sure to yield fruit

It is established that bee-keeping increases fruit productivity, but can the practice become successful in urban India?

Saving for rainy days

People of West Bengal’s Sunderbans region are setting up grain banks to safeguard against food crisis

Mangoes lost 150 years ago

A Karnataka farmer conserves mangoes lost 150 years ago

Uttar Pradesh police opens fire on anti-Kanhar dam protestors

Tribal leader Akku Kharwar and eight others seriously injured in the firing in Sonbhadra district

Dye filter

An improvised bio-sand filter helps Nepal dyers treat toxic effluents

Erasing the dots

Even as Goa's politicians and the mining mafia employ multiple strategies to denotify two sensitive wildlife sanctuaries in the state's Western …

Seeds of hope

Northern Bangladesh successfully fights its age-old famine-like situation by creating a new cropping season and introducing lost indigenous rice …

Good ol' dug well

Traditional shallow wells can supply arsenic-free water. All one needs to do is install it with caution

Rivulet resurrected in 45 days

Thousands of people working under NREGS bring a 38 km stream back from the dead in Uttar Pradesh

Mermaid's second life

The dugong stages a revival, thanks to conservation efforts

Election 2014: How green are our political parties?

A look at the future of green clearances through the manifestos of political parties in the electoral fray

Coal mining threatens Meghalaya caves

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 …

Just like a forest

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

One step forward, two steps back

Countries want to do little to keep global average temperature rise to below 2oC. The Warsaw climate talks have exposed this. A report by Uthra …

World gets a yellow card

The Warsaw climate talks serve a grim warning to the world that inaction will cost, writes Chandra Bhushan as he leaves Warsaw just before the …

Punjab's paddy dilemma

In 2009, Punjab became the first state in the country to enact a law banning the sowing of rice before a stipulated date. The aim was to arrest …