Survival in a chemical dustbin
Residents sleep with doors and windows shut tight. Dangerous gases are released at night in Dombivli
Stopping dead in tracks
Lack of a coherent environmental policy is the main drawback of Hero Puch. It badly needs to shift gears to address green concerns
Endgame
Calamities, environmental degradation and bad governance invest to make Orissa India's poorest state
Disastrous state
Floods, cyclones, heat waves and droughts have made Orissa the disaster capital of India. Is it just natural or is the state paying a price for …
Run from cover
Health insurance companies pursue customers till policies are sold. Then they disappear. The nature of business has already changed the treatment …
Fuelling a crisis
A recent, innocuous check-and-tally exercise by the Delhi administration unearthed a giant racket diverting to the transport sector heavily-…
Digging their own grave
Extracting minerals and ornamental stone in the Aravallis - despit its environmental costs - is such a flourishing economic activity that …
India's game plan on GATT: Will it work?
The government says there are opportunities to improve the Dunkel packager but not all are convinced that it is trying hard enough. …
Farmers split on merits of Dunkel proposals
The attack on a Bangalore seed company was reported as the start of a farmers' movement against globalisation of agriculture. Now, some …
Budgetary provisions are export oriented
The budget seeks to encourage technological change in India, especially in export-oriented industries, and to obtain private funding for …
Anxiety helps hasten ozone safety deadlines
Despite Third World pleas for generous grace periods, Montreal Protocol nations have moved forward the phase-out dates for chemicals threatening …
Anti bodies
Pesticides -- on the face of it, ordinary chemicals to contain pests, but in reality, deadly killers which could deliver the ultimate blow by …
Artisans the untold story
Despair and devastation stare India's artisans in their face, as resource crunch, modern civilisation and government apathy combine in an …
What's in a neem?
A lot, apparently. Neem -Azadirachta indica -and the I?roducts derived from it have traditionally been widely used for centuries, especially in …
Closed systems, open minds
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has been doing research on health and environment in the public interest. But most government …
Water strongholds
Chittor and Ranthambhore. Proud traditions of valour, chivalry and patriotism are complemented by one of common sense in the storage and use of …
More of everything?
Increasing acid rain. Higher temperatures. Water scarcity. Shrinking farmlands. Reducing biodiversity. This is what the years leading to AD 2050 …
A social force called water
The state is struggling to meet the rising water demand. It is time to learn from the days when people arranged their own water. In cities and in …
DISTRESS SIGNALS
New diseases are emerging with changes in the environment, some old diseases are also staging a comeback
DYING FOR PROGRESS
The growth of cities and industries has severely affected the environment. The spread of disease has increased with the spread of civilisation
Melting into thin air
The 25-km long Gangotri glacier, fountainhead of the Ganga, is receding at an average 18 metres annually
Chimney sweepers
Industrial production threatens to shroud all economic development activities in layers of smog
Road to hell
Emissions from two-stroke vehicles and diesel have contributed to the eight-fold rise in vehicular pollution in two decades
The Sherlock principle
When there is only one option left, it is the right answer: this was the Supreme Court's logic in the CNG order
Chopping down the future
About 90 per cent of Arunachal Pradesh's revenue is generated by its forests. Yet these very forests are under heavy pressure, thanks to …