Unprepared

GM crops have been introduced into India. But the country lacks a comprehensive policy to regulate them

Visible impact

Scientists and policymakers may choose to believe global warming is too remote to worry about, a mere projection by a computer that often can't …

Polarised

Is global warming for real? Is it natural, or human-caused? Who will benefit from its effects? Suffer? The scientific debate on climate change …

Reaching for the Skies

New Delhi has become the hub of the burgeoning air traffic in Asia. But does it have the mathematical precision to avoid traffic snarls in the air?

A plague on this country

The plague today holds the same threshold of dread that it did in the 14th century. So when the Black Death struck India late last month, the …

Beyond Repair?

Food insecurity

Environmental degradation would undermine China's food security in the coming 30 years

Water: too little, too polluted

Rapid industrialisation has severely polluted the scarce water resources of China

Fear of knowledge

The only effort to breed chiru in captivity wasn't given a chance

Bottlenecks

The prohibitive costs and some expert suggestions to bring them down

Reuse, recycle

Or relocate

Raintapping

A government diktat doesn't harvest

Tanker economics

Sign of things gone horribly wrong

In desperation

Chennai must incessantly seek water

Big money

Foreigners are eyeing India's market

Tested, not tried

Indigenous treatment technologies haven't taken off

Sewage flow

Indian companies want to jump in

There's a way

How do we bring economy, and equity, to water supply?

Let people do it

Involve communities in the distribution process

Check wastage

Put a price to water

A partial success

Private sector-community collaborations need more inputs

Make it different

For the rich and for the poor

Be cautious

Privatisation can do more harm than good

It's often a disaster

South Africa's experience with privatisation

Limited

The private sector's role