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Who pays for the greenbacks?

OUR attitude to the environment has been like the proverbial free lunch: no immediate costs, and free dessert in the bargain. The punishment is that someone must pay for the degradation, even though
- 30/04/1994
- - Environment
  - Developing Countries
Cleaning up the plastic act

Researchers are taking the dirt out of plastic
- 29/09/1994
- Down To Earth
- - Science And Technology
Indifferent strokes

Government agencies had sponsored the study but were not interested in the results
- 14/08/1997
Neglect robs Saurashtra park of greenery

A wilderness park nurtured carefully by a former maharaja of Bhavnagar looks decrepit today, with its resources plundered and its wildlife dwindling.
- 14/04/1993
THE MONEY MAKERS

US drug companies are responding to criticism of the high cost of prescription medicines by putting out a new message for consumers: "We are not out to fleece you. We are, in fact, toiling hard to
- 14/03/1994
- Down To Earth
Stalking plague

it is heartening to note that in the present decade, the intellectuals and academicians of the nation are not pontificating and publishing in just the realm of abstract theory but are directly
- 14/12/1997
Playing Lego with molecules

Scientists are trying to make designer solids substances whose molecules they assemble according to a predetermined plan
- 30/08/1993
- Down To Earth
Eating oil

Fertilisers accelerate growth not only in plants but also in certain microbes that feast on oil
- 30/05/1994
- Down To Earth
Agriculture: no relation to ecology

In India, the issue of food security has always been intimately involved with that of ecological degradation. In 1he late '60s and early'70s, the green revolution was introduced to increase food
- 14/05/1996
- - Environment
  - Political Parties
  - CSE
  - India
  - Research
A lot of gas!

LPG is a long way from being used as a fuel in automobiles
- 14/07/2000
- Down To Earth
MoEF falters

New draft environmental clearance process full of gaps
- 14/11/2005
- Ministry of Environment and Forests
- - Environment
Religion & environment

the environmental protection movement as we know and see it today was launched by sensible, rational people who had begun to discover early in the 1960s that the present pace of development,
- 14/02/2000
Natural jeans, clean gasoline and organic cures

Manufacturers across the world are busy developing environment friendly products and minimising pollution in production process. A select list
- 14/07/1992
- Down To Earth
AIDS increases TB death risk

People infected with the AIDS virus are more susceptible to tuberculosis, and this further reduces their chances of survival.
- 29/11/1992
- Down To Earth
Bad blood

A hypothesis that radiation from a nuclear plant caused leukaemia in the children of its employees has been trashed
- 14/05/1994
- Down To Earth
The case that closed the Walia mines

Litigation against unscientific and environmentally dangerous mining activity brought Himachal Pradesh lime quarries into national prominence.
- 14/05/1993
- - Ecology
  - Pollution
  - Mining
  - Limestone
  - Industry
  - Himachal Pradesh
  - India
A mountain to climb

Cash-strapped Uttaranchal embarks on industrialisation. However, its policies are frightfully blind to green issues
- 30/08/2003
Shared misery

The government has finalised a strategy to get industries to reduce their waste
- 14/01/1995
- Down To Earth
Delhi government

Utterly confused. Speaks for polluters who have business interests in scuttling CNG
- 14/03/2001
- - Vehicular Pollution
  - Health Effects
  - Cancer
  - CNG
  - Diesel
  - Transport
  - Three Wheelers
  - Supreme Court
  - Governance
  - Political Parties
  - Politics
  - Delhi
  - Corruption
Paying the price

High costs discourage the use of low sulphur fuels
- 30/07/2000
- Down To Earth