Dhaka's green plans

A tiger by the tail

Amendment to wildlife act deferred

Let's not slander conservationists

Wildlife needs conservationists from all walks of life, including those running eco-tourism

European Parliament adopts nature restoration law

New law sets a target for the EU to restore at least 20 per cent of the EU’s land and sea areas by 2030

Sukhomajri at the crossroads

The forest department intervenes to spoil a successful conservation programme of a Haryana village. An assement by Richard Mahapatra

Who will play Cupid?

Pollinators, small insects like bees and butterflies, animals like bats and small birds such as the hummingbird, play a big role in helping …

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)

A cursory collection of platitudes

Dynamics of Mountain Geosystems Edited by R B Singh Publisher: Ashish Publishing House, Delhi Price: Rs 500

World's biodiversity needs to be preserved

Biodiversity - the billions of life forms that exist on earth - ranges in size from microscopic be viruses to blue whales that are more than 30 …

Mistaking guns for trees

The Tamil Nadu Green Movement wants the state government to use armed guards to protect a rain forest. Will they never learn?

The face of extinction

Species extinction is real, and not a scare. But the solutions conservationsists provide are simplistic and even more scary

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

Flight into danger

While cranes are regularly hunted in parts of Pakistan, villagers in Rajasthan are doing their best to protect these endangered species

Bear orphanage

Make the Dead live

Reptiles rediscovered

CHINA

Animal farm

Analysing wildlife through DNA

NEW GUINEA

Poisonous bird