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

India now has 1,706 tigers

At the last count their number was 1,411; experts doubt latest census

Native vs immigrant?

Managing Wastes

The solution lies in making waste management a community exercise

A Heap Of A Problem

The problem of solid waste management is not just limited to the cities

Labour scarcity makes coffee plantation ecosystem in Western Ghats fragile: Study

Rising labour costs, urbanisation and increased use of pesticides point to a growing conservation concern in the Ghats

Can changing crop pattern foil elephant raids to farmlands?

Farmers in eastern Indian states are replacing paddy with alternative crops to prevent elephant attacks. The question is can this experiment be …

NGT steps in to save Kanha tiger from small-scale mines

Directs state to evaluate if cumulative EIA is required for the dolomite mines bordering tiger habitat

Who dropped MESA?

Government clueless about the Bill it introduced 12 years ago to govern urban areas in tribal regions. Constitutional crisis follows

Coal mining destroying wildlife habitat: Greenpeace

Virtually all new coal fields and planned power plants are in states that have India’s largest contiguous tiger landscape

A Public Effort

Where the government has failed miserably in providing quality service to the people, some ngos have set an example on how urban waste can be …

Bogged Down

Waste generation is not rare in urban areas, nor any other part of the world. The only difference is in the management of wastes. An effective, …

Lavasa: Dream for one, nightmare for many

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava finds how people affected by Lavasa are coping with the destruction it has caused

Lawnful of pollution

Each time you mow your lawn you are making smogs worse

Paper tigers abound in Sunderbans

Officials inflated tiger population to unrealistic figures  

Health care should be cheaper and more accessible

N H ANTIA Director of the Foundation for Research in Community Health, Pune, Maharashtra is striving to promote the concept of better health care …

People's initiatives

Orissa and UP villages once again prove that people are better managers of natural resources than today's obdurate governments

A bushful of medicine

Seabuckthorn, a plant with numerous medicinal properties, grows wild in India. Rural communities are the losers

Whither freedom?

Post independence, governments expanded squeezing village republics out of existence