SOUTH AFRICA

Prawns in danger

CFCs black market

Time for a facelift ?

A German company claims its silicon-based technology can restore the Taj Mahal to its past glory. But some experts doubt its effectiveness

Funds for more forests

The Centre plans to set up a banking institution for afforestation programmes

PROTECTING BEELS

Coochie-cooing for oilspills

Reason to celebrate?

The biodiversity bill has finally been approved by the Parliament standing committee on science, technology and the environment. But is the way …

Hope for vultures

KOEL KARO

Conservationists distort whaling body's raison d'etre

It took just five votes to shake the very edifice of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Voting 25-20 in favour of setting up a …

Famine in the rainforest

The idea of a desert in the middle of the Western Ghats sounds unbelievable, but it may be on the cards

A scapegoat?

The government views goats as the greatest enemy of the environment

Looking ahead

A brief outline of the challenges of sustainable development in India

High hopes

Conservation area projects in Nepal prove that people and protected areas need not be mutually exclusive

Net bill, gross disaster

The Aquaculture Authority Bill makes a mockery of the Supreme Court ruling on aquaculture firms

Unsettling

The reality of resettlement in Orissa

Sal and siali leaves sustaining tribal Orissa

Three things historical literature can teach us about the climate crisis

The climate emergency may be unprecedented, but there are a few key ways in which past literature offers a valuable perspective on the present crisis

World’s tigers should be classified into two species only, says study

‘Classification of tigers into too many subspecies reduces the scope of action for breeding or rehabilitation programmes’

No longer barren

SAVING SKINS

Sound foundation

Fly ash presents an alternative to the polluting burnt bricks

Rhinos in trouble

Poaching and encroachments threaten one-horned rhionos at Orang National Park

Protection of wildlife