Ray of hope for transplant patients
A bill introduced during the last session of Parliament seeks to change the definition of death from when the heart stops beating to when the …
Filthy lucre
US's Democrats and Republicans break common bread over the fairness, or otherwise, of the Regulatory Reform Bill that could make industry …
The forgotten waters of Sanchi
Come monsoon, and archaeologists will be testing the revival of an Ancient water harvesting system in this historic Buddhist town
Highways of death
High risk levels and pathetically inadequate disaster management plans tar Indian roads as danger zones
Who'll bell the cats?
Bellary in Karnataka, targeted by industrial houses for 'development', death and devastation, needs an organised resistance to the mayhem
Sacrilage for power
China's major hydroelectric power station on the shores of one of Tibet's most sacred lakes not only threatens the fragile ecology of the lake …
Lost in the Thar
The Indira Gandhi canal project is a costly failure that has led to destruction of habitat and loss of arable land
Ivory trade to resume
Zimbabwe will be able to sell stockpiles of ivory to Japan, earning US $4-5 million for community development
Sound and fury
Monsanto talks too much. Misinformed activists rush in to burn fields in protest against the company. And India's government authorities, sitting …
CAUTION:only loggers allowed
How do you destroy a forest? Cover it under Project Tiger and alienate the local people. An example from Bihar
Deluge of foreign patent applications in India
Scare tactics
Violence mars Bihar’s efforts to empower women, promote self-governance
Where have all the people gone?
The ministry of environment and forests' plan to conserve biodiversity excludes the people.
Flood for thought
The people of Baluchistan don't let nature's odds stop them from growing crops
The flow's not smooth
UN water report on what ails water management today
Let the drylands bloom
By maintaining terrestrial forestation to improve the soils, drylands can be saved from being further degraded
New hope for the hirola
Kenyan Somalis use the court to prevent the Wildlife Services from translocating the endangered hirola antelope
Rising from the ashes
Today more than two-thirds of Japan's land area is under forests as a result of a state-sponsored afforestation drive which actively involved the …
Damning the Danube...
...is yet another example of monstrous short-sightedness on the part of governments bent on addressing their needs without a thought for the …
The Colour of GERMANY
For the first time in German history, the Green Party is part of the ruling coalition. The country is all set to embark upon new environmentally-…
Quarry in quagmire
Caught in a death trap, Jharia residents await doomsday. While BCCL openly displays a let-them-die attitude and the government remains silent, …
Eaten hollow
The sal heartwood borer is all set to destroy sal forests in Madhya Pradesh. But this would not have been possible without the assistance of an …
Is pregnancy a disease?
The development of birth-control methods that use the body's immune system may be more convenient than condoms and pills. But several groups …
Not merely a numbers game
Although the recently held world population summit emphasised population control in the developing countries as the main block in the path to …
Political hand behind tribal encroachment
Tribals displaced by the Salandi river dam in Orissa are encroaching on the Hadgarh sanctuary, allegedly at the instigation of the Socialist …