Feverish chaos

How prepared are we to face a catastrophe?

Lessons needed in governance

A betrayed people: forest land right usurped

The threat within

Can the US learn to put global interests before its own?

Wild management

India's forests are not wilderness but habitats. Our wildlife management strategy must for this reason be inclusive of people who live in our …

Relics of reason

A call from within

To hell with the hippocratic oath

For whom the bell tolls

Genetics and the great Faustian pact

When will the secrets be out?

Marginalised in Mexico

The can-conned

Partisan and patently painful

Bureaucratic bargains

A plague called Prilissa

A new range of computer viruses threatens to cripple the engine of civilisation

Rendezvous with Lord Ram

The government tries to monkey around with monkeys. Not a good idea

Forest scraps

Battles over forest rights are nothing new. Neither are flawed policies and distrust

Unfounded euphoria

The CSIR may have managed to shoot down one US patent on turmeric but Indian biodiversity needs a strong law to protect it

Rivers don't have borders

After having improved the state of the Rhine, Europe is cleaning up the Danube. A lesson for India

Cutting it short

The Biosafety Protocol has just been adopted. In some ways it is a step forward. But it may turn out to be powerless to check trade in …

Needed: a spine for Delhi government

There are two sets of rules for polluters. The rich and the powerful can pollute without fear, but the poor have to bear the brunt of their …

Government jobs sans fringe benefits

When scientists blow a fuse

The last gasp

Laps of plenty