...And ancient wisdom prevails

The Valencia water tribunal has stood strong for a thousand years; will modern-day pressures crush its influence?

Local citrus goes global

Short-circuiting discrimination or perpetuating them?

Nutrition programmes for Dalits need institutions to deliver and a vigilant citizenry to monitor implementation

Beauty and bounty

How Valley of Flowers got World Heritage Site tag

The tag will bring higher visibility and increased tourism to the area

Non-monetary indicator of poverty

Our policy makers should move away from the income criterion for estimating poverty and take cognisance of other indicators

Heritage valley in danger

The Valley of Flowers in Uttarakhand, a World Heritage Site, may have been damaged in the recent floods in the state. A look at what makes this …

Filling in the "big picture"

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Small town

Pyramids in peril

Unfair share

Parched future

ECUADOR

Rights against research

Bioscience get short shrift in UNESCO document

Awarding the tyrant

Award>> Life Sciences ÔÇó Equatorial Guinea

Ancient wisdom

A new book provides an insight on sacred groves

Steep crisis

UNESCO asked to list Mount Everest as endangered

Special status for India in global village

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Barely surviving

With about 300 sq km almost stripped bare of forest cover, Africa's first national park battles for survival

On air

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On heritage list

The fight to save Moenjodaro

A worldwide initiative to save the ancient city is trying to lower the water table around it and bind back the Indus before it gets washed away

South korea

Website on Caribbean Indigenous and endanged languages launched