Evolutionary drama

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

Mapping disaster

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

Misguided vision

In the rush to develop, the new resource-rich states are destroying the environment and thus the resource base of the poor

Duplicity

Governments and industrialists lie and use pressure tactics to acquire land for their plants. But they often face stiff protests

Killing the land

The rampant growth of sponge iron plants has caused major environmental problems. Local people, usually tribals, have borne the brunt

Why still unsafe?

Pesticide residues from essential food items is acceptable. But since soft drinks have absolutely no nutritional value, they should be completely …

Sorry scheme

The presentation made by the secretary of the Union ministry of environment and forests and the scheme document (which Down To Earth has access …

Humanity's puzzling past

The 4.5 million year blind leap from "almost human" to Homo sapiens continues to baffle palaeontologists, but 2 new finds offer a new …

More reasons for efficiency

Groping for the answer

Lack of western disturbances and El Nio explain only some parts of the puzzle

Documented secret

Will the People's Biodiversity Register Programme in Ernakulam lead to conservation?

Puppet show

Rajasthan government impressed the US president and left its people high and dry

Milk and money

Rural cooperatives in Gujarat are computerising all operations on their own steam

Yes sir, no sir

Read my lips. No, no, no

Disarray

A tradition becomes residual

Caught clueless

Where is the government's plan?

Slow, but sure, poisons

Explosive shells in scrap metals is one thing. Extremely toxic metals quite another

What ails these hill-stations?

Let them adapt

Customary institutions can lead if so empowered

In a mess

What's gone wrong?

Highrise and dry

If the Gurgaon model must be replicated, can its loopholes be avoided?

Eyesore

Today forlorn residents sit in opulent accommodations, worrying

Right of passage?

The private sector has taken Gurgaon for a ride

Progress INC

A town began to grow, then groan