Ban on grazing hits Raikas community hard

Waiting for a miracle

Citizens approaching the courts for protecting lakes in cities is all very well. But in the end, it is a choice between using land for water or …

Real estate on water

Lakes were critical for Indian cities. They prevented floods and recharged groundwater. Today, these holes in the ground are either lucrative …

Soor Sarovar bird sanctuary in peril

When homemakers unite

Housewives in Kolkata move the court against the irresponsible and negligent functioning of factories in their area

Spam in fishing net

Fish and a philosophy

A cooperative in Kolkata shows the way for urban sewage management

Field science

Everybody loves waterbody

Amid murder of an activist, 4,000 missing ponds and 195 FIRs on encroachments in East Kolkata Wetlands, West Bengal mulls a wetland policy

Raw Deal

Scepticism hangs over Kerala's Tribal Rehabilitation and Development Mission and its master plan

Degree without honours

Parliamentary committee turns down a proposed three-year course in rural health

Andaman Trunk Road ignores SC order, affects Jarawas' lives

He upheld human rights and dismissed PILs

Evergreen Novartis

The Swiss pharma giant’s challenge to India’s patent law, now in the Supreme Court, may help define drug efficacy

The battle over forests

Are the recent eviction drives misdirected? (Read full article)

Short circuit

On the face of it, the ambitious Sethusamudram project to bridge the east coast with the west coast of the country seems a great idea. The …

Bay in distress

A proposed shipyard threatens the rich biodiversity of a south Goa bay, but government is unmoved

Test tube brinjal

Indian regulators are keen to clear Bt brinjal for commercial cultivation. This would be India’s first genetically modified food crop. If …

Scorching salt

As the world celebrates yet another Environment Day, groups of marginalized people in some part of the globe or the other get evicted from their …

Mundra SEZ spells displacement for fisherfolk

This is what Lavasa looks like

Industrial discharge: seaward ho!

As rivers spill over, the sea becomes the new dumping destination in coastal Gujarat

Andhra salt-makers want recognition as farmers

Goa must grow...but how?

On January 26, 2007, the government of Goa withdrew its newest blueprint for the development of the state, called the Regional Plan 2011. …

Mumbai's solid waste management plans expensive, dangerous