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.…

Death of a Neem tree

An open letter to the Prime Minister

Devolution is bankrupt

Now even the World Bank says money should flow to local bodies directly

Lake Manchar is dead

Pakistan's largest freshwater lake is drowned by effluents

Bamboo shoot

It is rich in nutrition as well as flavour

Sanitary by 2010

Participatory survey gives Bangladesh the confidence to prepone sanitation coverage target

A great sweep

Feisty women hill broom gatherers force the forest department to relent in a Orissa village

Worm wonder

Vermicompost has changed fortunes of farmers in a drought-prone Karnataka district

Human touch in credit

The growth of a women's group that moved from being a savings unit to a social voice

Hit for six

Kashmiri bat-makers face willow shortage

Success in a fistful of rice

Women come to the rescue of a village burdened by drought

Thinking out of a box

Recycling of tetra paks gets underway in Mumbai

Potent sleuths

In Taiwan, citizens turn pollution detectives

High on Chinese demand

Rampant illegal iron ore mining in Karnataka's Bellary district

Skeleton Lake

What happens when ice melts in the Roopkund tarn?

Wellbeing in Venice

Venice isn't just canals and aristocrats. anupam mishra gets off a gondola and stumbles into well workmanship and rainwater use

Stand up again

The tsunami is a chance to rebuild self-reliance and governance of the Nicobar Islands. suresh babu returns from the islands to tell nitin …