Farce on wrong flows
The issue of interbasin transfer of water in India has got muddied by controversies and official indolence
In search of hunger
While the fare at the Rome Food Summit was aimed mainly to help tummy trimming of ambitious plans drawn up earlier, the general feeling of the …
Act of omission
The government's latest commission on water may end up churning out myopic, big-dam-centred policies
Grounding fliers
Environmental activists are fighting against the dramatic expansion of air traffic in the Netherlands
Approaching the end
Special efforts are needed or mammals with limited skills will not be able to survive the onslaught of development
State of confusion and double-speak
The 1995 report on state of India's forests baffles environmentalists with its curious explanations
Star-cross in Nigeria
NGOs and the Cross River state government are locked in a duel over the latter's plans to grant logging concessions to a Chinese metal company in …
Look before you leap
Denmark has for the first time introduced a law relating to the transfer of polluting technologies to other countries
For a lesser God's children
A US health care programme ought to target poor mothers and children - those most likely to reap its benefits, says an expert report
Trouble in Tehri
A sudden eviction notice to the people of Tehri town, warning of an imminent flooding, has incensed the public
Chaos-in cyberspace
If not checked out immediately, the 'year 2000 problem' could be a potential time bomb capable of demolishing our smug cyber operations
A fused scheme
A short circuit in consumer acceptance and a punctured technology compels California to backtrackfiom launching electric cars in the state
Destination India
The Environment Protection Agency of the US plans to take up projects in India by working in tandem with government agencies and NGOs
From Russia with love
Exchange of technology between Russia and the West is opening up new horizons in the aerospace industry
For a cause
Healthy people in the US are lending their bodies to help researchers develop a vaccine for AIDS
Plague case causes alarm
French researchers have identified the first case of bubonic plague resistant to antibiotics
Ode to the resurrected
Now that low-income minorities are becoming the target of AIDS, service agencies are redefining their role
All in one
India becomes thefourth country in the world to have a controlled environment research facility
Pilfering citizens' rights
The latest Gowdaspeak is a draft bill that would restrict people's access to courts to agitate against environmental mismanagement
A crisis breaks out
A pipeline burst in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, subjected the city's residents to a major water crisis and exposed the unpreparedness of the …
A no to yes
The Netherlands has weakened its decision to cut carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2000
Prude operator
World Bank's efforts to leverage more private investment may undermine development
Law for the jungle
Supreme Court passes an interim order banning commercial activities in all forest areas
Whose wealth?
Out of the reach of the Indian user, indigenous information is allegedly being siphoned off in CD-ROM databases for the West's benefit
A Russian roulette
The main source of the illegal trade in ozone-gobbling chemicals, the mafia in Russia is now in the line of fire