A silver lining: Quotes from the earth

Till very recently, it was taken for granted in India that film festivals were avenues, which encouraged critical voices. Selection committees …

Website review: electronetwork.org

If you thought of electromagnetism as something that only served to light up your home and run a thousand gadgets, think again. Our reality, be …

Website review: www.arkive.org

"It is the Noah's Ark for the Internet era" -- claims the site. The comparison may not, in some respects, be completely unjustified. ARKive is a …

A different picture

Is it a mere coincidence that Jamie Foxx and Moesha, tv shows with predominantly African American cast and audience, feature more overweight …

Website review: www.changemakers.net

Is information invariably bound to perception? Let us try and answer it in the context of the worldwide conference on water currently online at …

Village Forest -- with Draft Rules Under Sec 28 of Indian Forest Act 1927

Millions of Indian villagers today act as guardians of forests, forming a mutually beneficial relationship, quite often without outside help. But …

Chinese ritual - Homage online

Chinese government departments have devised a rather strange solution to the problem of congestion and traffic jams. They have requested mourners …

Tiger's new friends

The Kids for Tigers initiative of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), in collaboration with Sanctuary magazine and …

Deliberate poisoning

Will a study induce government to check contamination of waterbodies by arsenic from coalmines?

Jeevika 2003: About common people

What do people do when their livelihoods are threatened? How do they deal with a world that pushes them to the margins? Such issues were raised …

Review: Four films on climate change

Climate change. Two words which hold, between them, some of the most complex as well as vigorously debated issues of all times. Changing Climates,…

Snippets

A real disaster

Rich states, fewer disasters, more calamity relief fund

Lest the gloom prevail

To jam or not

Missing link

Lies against lies

Lethal legacy

Air pollution linked to inherited genetic mutations

Beefing up food security

New atlas analyses current patterns and serves up lasting solutions

Book review: HIV/AIDS and Traditional Medicine

Indian systems of medicine could receive a big boost if they could yield a cure for just one major disease. And, theoretically, there can be a …

Green Oscar Awards

Raman Sukumar, founder-director of the Bangalore-based Asian Elephant Research and Conservation Centre, has been selected for the prestigious …

Toyota pays up

Toyota Motor Corp will spend US $34 million to finance the improvement of anti-pollution controls on old, publicly-owned buses in the US even …

Website Review: http://www.wotr.org

The concept of water harvesting is catching like wild fire across the length and breadth of the nation. For those interested in knowing more …

Extractive industries review

An independent review the World Bank commissioned wishes the Bank to stop funding all coal and oil mining projects in developing countries, …

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