Bird populations in India dwindling at alarming rate

Fuel inefficient India heading towards energy crisis

Energy insecurity is India's latest tryst with her post-liberalised destiny. It began in July 2006. Crude oil prices rose to all time peak, at US $…

Global food crisis: causes and implications for India

Is there a global crisis unravelling? World food reserves are at their lowest in 25 years and the prices of most food crops are at a record high. …

Faceless Figures

The status of cancer data in India is as scary as the killer itself. The most recent data on cancer by the Indian Council of Medical Research is …

Rise in biofuel demand could trigger food, water crisis

Highest in 650,000 years

Saving Amazon rainforests

Root cause

Adulteration is an effect of warped pricing

2001 onwards

A systematically careless government

Who controls

Damodar - Ten years after

How has the river that flows through one of the most industrialised regions in India fared since it was first written about in 1993? Down to …

Dirty fuel

CSE's Clean Air campaigners ANUMITA ROYCHOWDHURY and CHIRAG SHAH expose the dirty, intelligent and systematic business of fuel adulteration:…

Dhamaal Growth

NIDHI JAMWAL wonders what happened after Gurgaon got colonyfied

Blues for the big cats

Everyone knows of the tiger's endangered status, but the government seems unwilling to face the reality. So far, it has tried to resolve the …

Pure myth

When was the last time you drank water straight from the tap at your house to slake thirst on a hot summer day, without hesitation. Chances are …

Pro-industry food safety and standards bill does not address safety concerns

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun." -- George Orwell in his 1937 novel The Road …

UN begins task of drafting declaration on sustainable development agenda

Delegates express concern over achieving equitable development

Flat in 20 days

Global climatic anomalies allied with local weather conditions produced the most freakish hailstorms in central and north India in February and …

Indians spending less on food, says national survey

Total consumer expenditure on processed foods, beverages, and refreshments level has increased

Good news: Delhi no longer 'world’s most polluted city'

Indian capital now ranked No. 11 in WHO’s air pollution database

Desperately seeking skills & jobs

India has a youth bulge in its population, accounting for the largest number of young working age people in the world. This demographic …

Kidney conundrum

A mysterious chronic kidney disease is afflicting a large number of people in India and Sri Lanka. Despite decades of studies, scientists are …

Germany in transition

From an economy addicted to coal and nuclear energy, Germany is fast transforming into one driven by renewables. Its aim is to demonstrate to the …

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 …

THERMAL POWER

Power plants consumed 530 million tonnes of coal in 2014-15, which is around three-fourths of the total coal use in the country