Andamanese threatened by development

The indigenous population of the Andaman and Nicobar islands might very soon be extinct. Today the combined population of the four indigenous …

Population prompts progress

The experience of a Kenyan community contradicts a traditional theory that population and development are inversely proportional

Farm community abandons old practice

A Nepalese community that grows vegetables using traditional techniques is now succumbing to population pressures and rapid urbanisation.

DIRTY SEX

Every 10 years, the census of India comes out with a damning statistic: the country's abysmal female-male ratio. As per the 2001 census, there …

A Himalayan plunder

RITA ANAND looks at changes in Himalayan forest cover in historical perspective, focusing on the Kaghan Valley in northern Pakistan

Umbilical Discord

An estimated 8,000 babies are born with neural defects every year in Rajasthan. Most of them die within a few months of birth. They are lucky. …

Smokescreen

The most powerful government in the world and the behemoth tobacco industry are waging a ding-dong battle over...well, cigarettes

Are human beings edging out all other life forms?

Northeast India occupies 8 per cent of the country's geographic area, and supports 3.8 per cent of India's total population (2001 census figures).…

Chinese aggro

India lagging behind due to bad practices

Beyond The Billion

If post-Independence leaders of India had ensured full literacy, a solution would have been in sight for a lot of problems. Population, for one. …

Blinded by figures

By 2010, the world's population will have gone up to 6 billion. But at the recent New York meeting on population and development, counting heads …

End of dividend

Not merely a numbers game

Although the recently held world population summit emphasised population control in the developing countries as the main block in the path to …

Checking population growth through the ages

The concept of family planning control dates back to the ancient Greeks. Though many scientific advances have been made in the field since then, …

Smokescreen

The most powerful government in the world and the behemoth tobacco industry are waging a ding-dong battle over...well, cigarettes

Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment

Problem of plenty

Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in Assam has far more rhinos than it can sustain

Spare change

Resources devoted to health care systems are neither divided equitably nor in proportion to the distribution of health problems

Unholy deeds in the woods

Human greed is putting an end to the traditional sacred groves in Kerala

A revolution misplaced

Apathy towards China's environmental degradation may seem a thing of the past. But the damage that has already occurred places a daunting task …

When birth control means business

Government’s scheme to give monetary remuneration to health workers for counselling couples on family planning may just backfire, says …

FARM IP, ENTER WIPO

Developing countries will now have to battle IP issues related to new agricultural technologies at WIPO instead of WTO

Paradise in peril

Galpagos, an archipelago straddling the equator 1,000 km west of Ecuador, is probably the world's best-known biodiversity zone. But alien species …

Impatient to sterilise

In a hurry to bring down fertility rate, health officials are blatantly flouting government’s guidelines

High Altitude Dilemma

It is an intriguing view from the high mountains of Bhutan. To the east lies Nepal, grappling large-scale environmental degradation. To the north …