Neem gains honour as India's wonder tree

Known in ancient India as a tree with many wondrous properties, the neem tree is slowly drawing the attention of the country's scientific and …

Tried and tested

Traditional medical and agricultural practices, usually dismissed as unscientific, are regaining favour, with some help from Honeybee -- a …

Contest for pesticide

Demand for state control as Pesticides Management Bill is set to be tabled in Parliament

Making science of mumbo-jumbo

Scientists compile India's ethnic knowledge. They find a veritable gold-mine

Bhopal to Germany

Airlifting Union Carbide waste requires amending Indian law, violates Basel Convention

Orange tumbles

Nagpur orange’s survival hinges precariously on its return to sustainable cultivation. Farmers have woken up to this, but will the government?

Punjab's spiritual farming

Made it

Enabavi, a village of 52 families, is abuzz. It is hosting farmers from the nearby Kallem village who have come here for tips on profitable …

Organic thread

Even as Bt cotton invaded Indian fields in the past few years, some farmer groups kept pushing for organic cotton. In 2009-10, production in …

Organic Universe

Organic is all the rage. Organic food, cosmetics, clothes and even organic medicines. But mostly it is food. There are speciality stores that …

Want to be fried?

Why should progress be putrid?

Experiments with established truth

Toxic city

Hell in our cities

The dumber number game

Sounds of self-interested silence

How do you like your food, sir?

Democracy must be worked at

'SLAPP'ed but will not submit

Inaction discourages positive change in industry

Stop the cycle of poison

The rise and fall of a chemical

DDT use goes back to World War II

Divert, deny, dismiss and damn

Don't make the world dysfunctional