Bihar makes an attempt to boost gharial population

Population of the reptiles in India has declined by up to 94 per cent in past few years due to rampant hunting and killing for their skin

Bee sure to yield fruit

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

Why Asian cities should be made ‘smart cities’

Kolkata and Mumbai are among the most flood-prone Asian megacities in the world and must invest in water-smart planning and development, says new …

Fighting for survival

Shrinking habitat due to deforestation has forced elephants to enter human territory in Orissa's Keonjhar district

Who is monitoring Lavasa?

Lavasa Corporation is rushing to complete its township in Western Ghats. No one knows if the promoter is complying with conditions on which it …

Green cussedness, anyone?

They did the impossible on land that held no hope

Critical Wildlife Habitat guidelines issued; NTCA order superseded  

Forest rights activists criticise Ministry of Tribal Affairs' decision to accept the guidelines without making any revisions or inviting comments …

US, epicentre of unequal wealth

As the US completes 50 years of its "war on poverty", the country does not have much to celebrate, thinks JOEL BERG, an expert on …

Dam of defiance

The Chikkapaclasolagi barrage, on the River Krishna in Karnataka, is said to be the country's first "people's dam". But having built …

Spare change

Resources devoted to health care systems are neither divided equitably nor in proportion to the distribution of health problems

Letters

Parkinson’s trigger

Chemicals released from mouldy walls could cause Parkinson’s

Bagasse power

Urban malady

A Japanese study suggests that city life contributes to premature death

Forest governance 2.0

Forest dwelling communities have created a new economy courtesy a decade of the Forest Rights Act. Will the bureaucracy support the empowered …

Industries eye forest land for plantations

Wood-based firms want to convert forest areas to their own use for raw material. In doing so, they ignore the fate of millions of rural poor, who …

False predictions

For years, energy experts and foresters have believed that the poor will eat away the forests of the developing world like locusts in order to …

As we fight to protect species on the brink of extinction, let’s not forget the familiar ones

To conserve nature, we must maintain our focus on the familiar

Civil society & politics

Orissa villages face crisis

Elephant corridor report plagued with inconsistencies, could escalate conflict with humans, says expert

IISc professor Raman Sukumar stressed on effective management of jumbos in National Board for Wildlife meeting in August

Poaching, habitat loss push Africa’s elephants to the brink

IUCN declares African forest and savanna elephants as ‘critically endangered’ and ‘endangered’ based on latest population …

Garbage gets attention

India is revising the way it manages solid waste. A manual for this, prepared by the urban development ministry, proposes providing legal …

The world isn't just Big Macs and Coke

How many people can the earth sustain? While the world feverishly computes the answer, it must not forget that sustainability is not just feeding …

At home with nature

Terrace, windowsills are a great space to nurture birds, butterflies