Going organic

Ready to roll

Debris, into Karnaprayag

Summit watch

A new mountaineering policy for Uttaranchal

Ablaze again

Forest fires a recurring problem across the country

Fishing feud

Skeleton Lake

What happens when ice melts in the Roopkund tarn?

Misdiagnosed

Flawed plan triggers water crisis in Uttaranchal villages

No mining

Uttaranchal village relieved

Yar Tsa Gumba

A miraculous mushroom, over-exploited, is on the brink of extinction

Home grown power

More and more villages are opting for affordable, manageable micro-hydel projects

Divine protection

Kumaon villagers discover that gods are the best forest guards

Dodgy doses

UNICEF in dock over vitamin A fortification programme

Power Point

Experts have given conflicting reports on the Tehri dam

Deluge

Force the fish up

The annual Maund festival of the Aglar valley in Uttaranchal is both pure revelry and impure fun, says manisha viren singh

Mining the Himalaya

Will biodiversity hotspots such as the Himalaya become hunting grounds of the notorious mining industry? This concern has been raised by experts …

'The forest mafia is very powerful'

AJAY S RAWAT spent six months in the Indo-Nepal terais to trace the methods of timber smugglers

A mountain to climb

Cash-strapped Uttaranchal embarks on industrialisation. However, its policies are frightfully blind to green issues

Forest ministry favours intrusion

The biggest threat protected areas across the country face right now is from their purported protector -- the Union ministry of environment and …

Organic farming: Reaping mixed benefits

Contradictory state of affairs in two Uttaranchal villages highlights both potential and obstacles of organic farming. The paradox has cropped up …

Clucking in alarm

poultry farms across north India are facing a mysterious viral disease. As many as two million birds have fallen prey to the illness and the …

Opening up, but tread softly

April 2003 saw two diverse regions in India take a similar decision. Both partially opened the door to tourism in hitherto protected belts. One …

Forest conservation is too complex an issue to be resolved by executive fiat

The condition of India's forest and her forest dwellers is extremely grave. A fresh round of police attacks on tribal people -- four dead in Dewas,…

A dark tunnel

Twenty-nine workers were killed in a landslide at the Tehri dam. The contractor building the dam has blamed the "weak mountains" for …