The Silent killer

Pesticides kill insects. Then, they poison animals and birds. Humans are hardly out of reach

No cap on mechanisms

Obstacles

Why renewables cannot penetrate the market

The dollar-conscious producers

Two firms in Tamil Nadu show the way to exporting organically produced foodstuff.

New responsibilities, few funds

Heated exchanges

Global politics took an upper hand over planetary ecology in Kyoto

Unexpected relief

Nobody expected farm forestry and exotics to become a major source of firewood

Going nowhere

The biosafety protocol is still a chimera

Out of earshot

Who follows the public hearing procedures? Neither the government nor the project promoters

The written code

Based on public hearings, environmental clearances are given to companies concerned

System error

IT will become an agent of change only when there is less of government and more of innovation

A fine balance

The bill keeps national interests intact and remains TRIPS compliant

Sunset sector?

No. Possible sunlight industry

What people know

Best barometer of change

Water

What a challenge

For sure Supply

Look to farmers and ragpickers

The losers

What made them slip?

Progress report

Companies participated, willingly

Measuring the present

Forcing future change

Get positive

Every problem has a solution

Anatomy of a poison

How, and where, does arsenic contaminate groundwater? The theories differ

Evil design

The extent of arsenic contamination now includes several states in India

In absolute denial

The government refuses to acknowledge that arsenic menace has a spread

Too costly to grow

High input cost and erratic weather take toll

EXCLUSIVE: Eben Moglen says freedom depends on the Net

Beware of even democratic regimes which want to wiretap