High talk
Unspeak has piled up mountains of words on sustainable development of the world's fragile peaks, and action courses seem to have been lost on the …
Yankee doodles
...or is it going to be some dandy green picture of a USA under the born-again Bill Clinton, out to realise the American Dream?
Starting afresh
For the writer, the environs and celebrations will be very different when the new millenium dawns
The good news and the bad
Environment is going to be taught as a compulsory subject at the undergraduate level. But does anyone know how to go about it?
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 …
Blood on the beach
Fisherfolk on the coast of Saurashtra kill whale sharks to make a living. If this is replaced by an ecotourism scheme the people and the fish …
Hornbills in peril
Hornbills, also known as avian farmers for their unique role in disseminating seeds and regenerating forest trees, are threatened by changing …
Trekking to balanced development
Gandruk, a small Nepali village on a popular trekking route, will be visited by more than 80,000 tourists before the year ends. But an unusual …
A paradise in search of greenbacks
With Vietnam opening its doors to foreigners, tourism and foreign-exchange earnings are booming. However, fears are being raised of resultant …
Malaysia Marching
Successful local involvement in a Malaysian park throws up an answer to heavyweight World Bank terms and plans for ecodevelopment
Sour gripes
Non-governmental organisations face the wrath of the government for exposing the loopholes in its wildlife policy
Pachyderm policies
Indian and Kenyan elephant specialists recently exchanged views on controlling a common problem: man-elephant conflicts
Give Peace A Chance
Only a campaign that aims to conserve "wants" with the support of age-old "religious beliefs" can lead to a less strifed and more "peaceful world"
Put to the horn
Keep out the buffaloes and the cranes will also stay out of wetlands. There is more to controlled grazing and conservation of wetlands than the …
Dams: under scrutiny
Dams in the us are being dismantled to restore riverine ecosystems
Shall we tell the President...
...that he is absolutely right. The responsibility of environmental protection must be borne by both government and civil society
Green Oscar Awards
Raman Sukumar, founder-director of the Bangalore-based Asian Elephant Research and Conservation Centre, has been selected for the prestigious …
Monkey business
Coping with the nuisanceof urban monkeys may be beyond human patience. But shooting or declaring them pests will not serve the problem. Only a …
Changing nature
Nature, Environment and Society: Conservation, Governance and Transformation in India Nicolas Lainé and T B Subba (Eds.) Price : Rs 525.00
The environment needs painters, too
The modern onslaught: talus being pulled down. They are earthen walls surrounding plots of land, and have trees planted on them
What happens when a raindrop hits a puddle?
Dispersion is the ability of waves of different wavelengths to each move at their own individual speeds
A question of control
Karnataka's new panchayati raj law has sparked a debate, with the Congress government saying it gives the people more power and opposition …
Grasping the roots
Environmental literature plays an important role in moulding innocent minds to think and understand green.
Delhi goes green with Environment Day contest
The Care for the Environment Contest, which was held in New Delhi to mark World Environment Day, met with a response that far surpassed the …
Can USA provide all the solutions?
MANAGEMENT FOR A SMALL PLANET W Edward Stead and Jean Garner Stead Publisher: Sage Publications, London Price: $36 (Hardback); $17.95 (Paperback)