Waterworks India: Chewang Norphell

A brief clip from the movie Waterworks India profiling Chewang Norphell, a civil engineer who has found a unique way to combat the water …

Of mountains & ozone holes

When poets wrote for Down To Earth

Mapping the subcontinent

In 2002, the Survey of India began a year-long programme which celebrated 200 years of the Great Trigonometrical Survey, a mammoth cross-country …

Local lessons

Taking climate change negotiations out of international discussion boards to the villages

Shrouded in controversy

A mountaineering expedition into the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve revives the debate on ecotourism and people's rights over forests.

Ecotourism: Scrambling for paradise

Does tourism always have to be a threat to the environment? Not anymore, claim the promoters of the globally emerging industry of ecotourism. …

The cold rush

What has India got to show after 20 years on the Antarctica research bandwagon? Lack of focus

Keep on the grass

Alpine pastures are thriving despite policies to encourage grazing. But Himalayan pastures languish despite strong conservationist policies

Boom

Problem: Terrain forbids sprawl as in cities in the plains; Status: Alarming population density (people per sq km); Challenge: Policy question is:…

Why we celebrate rivers

More than 100 groups in at least 36 countries again pay their respects to rivers on this International Day of Action for Rivers