Snippets

Daft release?

India unveils its National Environment Policy 2004. Is it possible to smell a rat?

Too closed for comfort

Environment ministry begins preparing environment policy amid unwarranted secrecy

MoEF falters

New draft environmental clearance process full of gaps

Can we use our forests well?

Controversial pay-out

Japan bank sanctions Rs 560-cr loan for Orissa forestry sector

Holes in the pitcher

India's eco-mark leaves no mark

RTI detained

An axe that went awry

644 ha mangrove will be history

Kerala fast tracks star hotels and IT parks in eco-sensitive area

More work, less pay

Some MFP items were nationalised to get people fair deal; it was of no help

Lac grows on plant

Scientists find a way to cultivate lac that is less labourintensive and more profitable

Nirma plant in trouble again

Environment ministry says project site a wetland

Environment ministry firm on 'no-go' zones

Says mining in no-go zone against Forest Conservation Act

SC & Centre wrangle over forest committee

Environment protection act reduced to a travesty of their mandate

NTPC dam rattles local elections

Officials subverted elections to the forest council that opposed dam, allege villagers

Andaman and Nicobar: Beyond India's landmass

Excerpts from Troubled Islands! by Pankaj Sekhsaria

With a trace of Molybdenum

India’s forests, soil can store additional 7 billion tonnes of carbon: Study

India can gain most by improving management of existing, likely degraded forests

Brazil forest fire threatens local tribe

Loggers have been accused of starting fires to drive away the indigenous people

Tree coagulants

Why trees don’t bleed to death on being injured

Sizing up trees

A safer, cheaper device to measure tree circumference

UNITED NATIONS

Weed all over