Behind the scene

Dioxins are extremely persistent and all pervasive. Yet its politics tries to undermine the danger

The Indian reality

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

Internationally infamous

Toxic threat

Highly carcinogenic, dioxins trigger life-threatening diseases

Option shift

Ctrl oh!

What is 'open' in Free and Open Source Software?

A hundred-year war

It's been a century of research and implementation of malaria control strategies. But the disease continues to claim three million lives every year

Old fronts, new frontiers

New areas are being researched in malaria control and knowledge in the conventional fields has expanded

Local breeds first

Strategies need to be worked out and implemented immediately if India is to benefit from animal conservation

Ship-breaking

Hollow men and ailing systems

Forget vision, the Indian scientific establishment lacks even basic infrastructure to tackle known diseases. Surveillance to unravel the …

Evolutionary drama

Viruses are constantly changing character and becoming virulent. Ecological degradation ensures their survival

Water woes

Extreme events will adversely affect water resources

Biodiversity blues

Unable to adapt to rapid changes, many species will die out

Health holocaust

More and more people will fall victim to serious illnesses and a host of deadly diseases

Productivity peril

Crop yields will decrease substantially posing danger to food security

Mapping disaster

Little information currently exists on how specific areas of the country will be hit by climate change

Coastal chaos

Sea surges will inundate coasts, causing enormous damages

Thrust and Parry

What delegates wrangled about in CoP-8, issue by issue

The Delhi Declaration

Put together, it kept falling apart

Mission impossible?

Managing the conflict

Minority report

Will the forest department rewrite it?

The Imli Andolan

A policy failure

The tendu leaf

Makes/breaks governments