One of the main reasons given for nationalising the coalmines of India was to protect workers from accidents. What followed was large scale destruction of the environment. Now, the danger is not just from accidents that kill. For the residents of coal tow
Says no to reservoir-based dams; Centre-state clash imminent
State governments badger the MEF to implement its own proposal of industrial plantations in degraded forests
The New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) was the only non-governmental organisation (NGO) from the South to participate independently in the World Water Fair, held simultaneously
This time round, US secretary of energy Hazel O'Leary's visit to India was a successful business trip
Despite protests, a tainted company tries to set up a fungicide unit
Following in Maharashtra's footsteps, the West Bengal power department has unveiled a package including time-of-the-day (ToD) metering and tariff concessions to cut costs and raise non-peak hour
A proposed Indian dam releases a flood of protests in Bangladesh
A no holds barred treaty on investments would hand over the world on a platter to MNCs
Amid the blind rush of consumerism, a stall on air pollution was the sole voice of sanity
Promoting ostrich and emu farming in India s drought prone districts could be a boon to farmers
Monsanto wins a landmark victory in Britain
A zoology professor motivates people to plant trees in memory of the deceased
The Internet is fast becoming a powerful weapon in the hands of voluntary groups for tying up in knots the hitherto omniscient international business shoguns, forcing them to retreat ... because now the world knows of their dirty games
Vadodara's residents show that handling garbage hands on is the best way to beat municipal overload
Despite strong opposition, the Indonesia is going ahead with its plan to build 12 nuclear power plants
India s biggest public sector unit is out to ape the West s fashion for unsustainable living
eco-friendly truck: J Sainsbury Plc of the uk has deve loped the world's first solar photovoltaic-cooled food distribution truckthat aims at increasing the commercial use of the eco-friendly
Faced with a severe drought, the Gujarat government decided to reserve water from a dam for the town of Jamnagar. Rural folk of Saurashtra protested. In the ensuing riots, three people died
Technologies developed keeping rural India in mind
