Imagining IEDP

A US $67 million question: how would the eco-development project money be spent?

Reality check

Crank it up

Heavy metals in cosmetics

Chandra Bhushan, deputy director general at Centre for Science and Environment talks about the growing cosmetic industry and the presence of …

Veerappan is dead

Long live the other Veerappans?

Saving city lakes

To counter the rapid decline of its lakes, Karnataka is creating a new authority with powers to fine and imprison encroachers and polluters. Will …

Catch me a colossus

Catching Veerappan, who amuses himself upsetting the government cart, is like trying to cage a titan. The State is in no position to meet his …

Children's swaraj

Karnataka turns governance into child's play with kids' assemblies

Revival plan for whom?

Karnataka's ambitious plan to restore the ecology of illegal mining-hit Ballari has no representation from affected communities and environmentalists

Money does grow on trees

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 …

Jungle virus stirs

A lesser-known viral disease, similar to Ebola and dengue and so far confined to just five forest districts of Karnataka, has recently been …

Throat balm

Rasam soothes aching throats and upset tummies

Rogues tamed

In a unique operation, forest departments of two states use trained elephants to capture crop-raiding tuskers in the forests of southern Maharashtra

Why is rain a tragedy for cities?

Democracy's better half

Exclusive women's village councils are beginning to make a difference in India's rural areas. Are state governments ready to share power with them?

India's disregarded wolves

The king of dry grasslands has nowhere to go

Kagga in peril

This rice can tolerate brackish water but is on the brink of extinction. Can government save it?

Rivers of discord

Towers of pollution

60 per cent of telecom towers in India are powered by diesel

Time for the future to win

Green politics for green technologies

Time a resource curse got lifted

Chaos in the iron age

After iron ore plunder in Bellary and Goa comes a Supreme Court order that adds confusion to chaos

Care for cover

A highway in Karnataka stands testimony to the efforts invested by a couple in the environment