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Petroleum fuels the engines of the global economy. So there is never enough of it. Oil politics dictates international relations
Using cloak and dagger techniques and with help from willing critics, a British television crew does a hatchet job on India's nuclear programme.
The thirst for diesel in India is growing. Diesel mania grips the Indian automobile industry and the customers with more and more companies going for diesel variants. What most people are ignorant of or prefer to ignore is the fact that diesel fumes are h
Greens contend that agricultural productivity can be increased many times with minimal use of water and a few external inputs, but most definitely without giving in to those who shout the slogan: Declare agriculture an industry.
Solar energy is free, but harnessing it using conventional crystalline silicon cells is expensive. Efforts in India to produce an efficient, low cost alternative using amorphous, or non crystalline, silicon are now close to success
What does the phase out of commercial vehicles mean to the drivers of autorickshaws and taxis that have gone off the road?
...there's a Bhopal waiting to happen in the nooks and corners of the country. But the government is yet to take the right steps to ensure the safety of workers and the environment
This column will bring you an update on various groups and individuals working in fields related to environment, development and the sciences. This time some information on interesting and useful publications and networks
THE last thing you would get to know from the US-based World- watch Institute's State of the World 1992 is the state of America's own environment. Instead, you get an update on the rest of
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 farmers
Private funding has given a new meaning to scientific research today. With rising corporate research budgets, academic institutions are leaning more on industry sponsorship and less on government or charitable foundations. A major fallout of this alliance
Decline in supplies has badly affected many traditional crafts. Woodcarving in Saharanpur is one of them. Despite a revitalised export market, the craft that had begun as a sustainable proffession is dying a slow death
Indian lakes are no longer serene waterbodies. Instead, they have become stinking cesspools, a result of continuous inflow of sewage and massive siltation. As the lakes die a premature death, the question that arises is who is responsible for this sorry s
Litigation as a weapon for tobacco control
Bangladesh's flood victims have little or no work, and little or no money to buy food. And even the foodstuffs that are provided to them under relief measure are not as nutritionally sound as they ought to be
Health experts warn of an impending malaria epidemic in Vadodara. But government officials are silent over the issue
When the official system learns to loot the official treasury, it also targets the natural estate, the biggest property of the modern state. Good environmental management demands effective regulation to bring about a balance between environment and develo
The Sukruli cauldron threatens to boil over if the Orissa government does not act against the smoke spewing sponge iron plant in the area.
Read between the lines: the Supreme Court order has a development model hidden for the Northeast
