In the real world

Renewable energy technologies require support

Renewed focus

But the next one year is crucial to renewable energy in India

Black money

Economic concerns make the US promote unclean fuel

Discontinuous functions and environmental regulation

Environmental economics generally employs marginal logic. This is often useful for conceptual demonstrations even if not always literally …

Decoding Indo-US nuke deal

Celebrating WSF 2004

When 80,000 people talk it makes noise. So it wasn't unusual for the fourth World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai to be snidely called a huge '…

Fishery degradation in Pakistan: A poverty-environment nexus?

The number of fishing vessels in Pakistani coastal waters has been steadily increasing but the fish catches steadily decreasing. Press reports …

Lost in the jungle

The anti-people attitude that environmental NGOs had vehemently opposed in the '80s has resurfaced in the recent draft Forest Policy Bill. The …

Energetic dialogues

American industry tries to power its way into the Indian renewable energy market

Gasping for GAS

In the absence of a government policy on the use liquefied petroleum gas for automobiles, the illegal market is flourishing where safety norms …

Out of option

Solar becomes lifeline for power-starved Bihar, but cheap and inferior equipment dominate market

Up in arms over water

Current stress on nuclear energy rests on myth

Forest, forest, burning bright

It’s time Indian policy makers had a nuanced understanding of forest fires

Troubled waters

States view the draft water information bill as an instrument of Central interference

Sayonara to nuclear

Even if Japan aims to exit nuclear power by 2040, its path remains treacherous

All bark, all bite

Local communities in Nepal and some Central American nations have become invaluable participants in managing their forests

Faulty formula

New drug pricing policy proposes bringing all essential medicines under price control, but makes them expensive

Is tackling climate change economically viable?

Fights for space

Once harmonious, the human-elephant relationship has taken an ugly turn. Faulty forest policies and nationwide destruction of elephant habitats …

Solar units beyond people's reach in Sunderbans

Losing light

Bachat Lamp Yojana flounders. Investors say faulty mechanism makes it a bad deal

A looming biomess

Industry, government blame each other for green sector’s fall

Whose responsibility is it anyway?

Two years after the Supreme Court directed the setting up of two independent fuel testing centres in Delhi, one is yet to be commissioned

Biomass market in a flux

Biomass power generation started with a bang 10 years ago. Plant owners, Ruhi Kandhari and Aparna Pallavi met say the picture is not that …