A brigand called government

Whatever the outcome of the hostages crisis in Karnataka, stupid sandalwood protection laws will keep creating smugglers out of India's exploited …

Save our democracy

The death of an activist in Gujarat following his arrest and the recent arrest of social workers in Uttar Pradesh gives rise to a number of questions

Making waves

The rain dance over water harvesting structures is on. But it's also time for the government to think of making them sustainable

Dirty move

The move to exempt certain categories of industry from a public hearing is anything but laudable

Valuing the environment

The importance of good-neighbourliness

Profiting from ecological subsidies

Requiem for wasteland development

Lessons to be learnt from Chilika

The economics of empowerment

Whose forest is it, anyway?

Wanted: a green WTO

Calls to set up a World Environment Organisation are getting more strident

A clean disinvestment

Now disinvestment must also go green!

A killer stalks Siliguri

Messing around with the environment has led to the emergence of new and deadly diseases

Power 'em

More power for villages and people will ensure better governance and less corruption

Budget woes

Will a right environment be created by the budget this year?

Month of the dead leopard

One month in the life of an endangered species in India

Why this magazine?

As we celebrate our 28th anniversary, here's looking back at the first-ever editorial by Anil Agarwal as DTE started its journey

Spanish folly

When the Spanish found tobacco in America did they bite off more than they could chew? The debate still continues in the form of gutka in India

Cigarettes, cars, and public health

Why should only cars be blamed for causing cancer? There should be health norms for cigarettes, too

The truth of grains

The recent starvation deaths in Orissa have thrown up a more fundamental question -- that of local food security.

What a mess

Should the people of South Africa be denied medicines because they are too poor to pay for them?

Wait and watch

The us government is in transition. But why should the rest of the world suffer?

Taking science to the market

Rural priorities must be set by villagers