Sumdwellers displaced for a cleaner Yamuna

Slums dumped out of sight

40 New species

An expedition to a remote Indonesian jungle unravels a few of nature's longstanding mysteries

A town damned

Yazali, the first commercial town built by Nyishi tribals, might soon be submerged

Donkey comes home

The countrys only sanctuary offers professional care for the beasts of burden

War-like climate

Warming exacerbates conflict in Africa

Policing the police

A constable who gets corrupt officials behind bars  

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

Click the sick

Visual documentation of illnesses is integral to healthcare in the West but a rarity in India. Sayantan Bera charts the hows and whys of medical …

Clearing the clouds

Scientists are learning that the Indian monsoon is an integral part of the global ecosystem. The knowledge of these 'global teleconnections'…

Founded on piracy

The story of early US industrialisation

A thousand flavours

The Burmese people are a great exponent of slow food

Need vs greed

There is little talk of curbing water use in urban India. Cities’ insatiable water demand, coupled with leaky pipelines, is leading to …

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

Miracle man

Single-handedly, 62-year-old Shamjibhai Antala brings water to the arid lands of Saurashtra and reprieve to the villagers

Documenting the Northeast's tribal laws

Land is central to the tribal identity in the region too easily abbreviated 'northeast'. Jeuti baruah knows this too well. As director of the Law …

Effective water management by a Kenyan farmer

In Kenya, where sixty per cent of all agriculturists are small farmers with less than 5 hectares (ha) of land, Peter Saku is an interesting case. …

Climate change affects world's lakes

By 2080, the world's lakes will experience a temperature change of up to 6.7c caused by greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study by the uk-…

Stalagamite weather report

The result obtained from stalagamites -- supplemented by past temperature records, type of vegetation, data from the oceans such as the growth …

The world is vulnerable to oilspills

But most nations are ill-equipped to protect biodiversity havens

The mushroom of the royal

Nature has bestowed Kashmir with extraordinary climatic conditions and forest cover, apt for different mushroom varieties including gucchi (…

Kolkata's desi soft drink

The US beverage giants shell out billions to pop out punch-lines, and repackage Shah Rukh Khan to counter the repackaged Aamir Khan and vice-versa.…