The dirty dozen
Twelve of the deadliest toxins known to humans were recently the focus of a debate between 92 nations seeking ways and means to curb their use
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Farm community abandons old practice
A Nepalese community that grows vegetables using traditional techniques is now succumbing to population pressures and rapid urbanisation.
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The price of water
Low water prices have been pinpointed as being responsible for wasteful consumption by both domestic and industrial consumers, but what does the government propose to do about it?
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Targeting the paper industry
Higher rates have to be charged if the Indian paper industry is to learn a much needed lesson in water conservation.
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Stupid growth
The Sensex stock index has risen by 75 per cent since April this year. The rupee is at a three year high. Global investment analysts Goldman Sachs predict that India is the fastest growing of the
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Corporation for Sustainable Development
Under the Millennium Development Goals MDG of the United Nations UN , it has been agreed to halve the number of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015. The Johannesburg Plan of
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Money does grow on trees
My initiation into environmental advocacy began in the mid 1980s. My colleague Anil Agarwal was involved in a fight against the Karnataka government s proposal to give forest land to Harihar
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It's dark outside the TV grab
In this day of television grabs, policies are about slugfests. The logic of the grab is that any discussion must be heated, with sharply divided positions clear proponents and opponents. It is a
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Climate Politics : Stress is now on use and distribution, not just scarcity, of natural resources for a transformation
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After the last tree is felled...
"Sustainable development" cannot afford to be another epithet in the lexicon of development, but should dispel myths about human-made and natural capital
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Unveiling the past
People are now realising that the solutions to many modern problems lie buried somewhere in our traditional sciences
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City scan
Will the future city, marked by responsible governance and a concerned citizenry, be able to address the problems dogging the world's urban centres?
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To sell a resource
Water. A resource whose scarcity and inefficient allocation gives enough cause for concern. A concern which could find a solution in the concept of market-based allocation and tradeable water rights
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Crisis in Krishna
Forest tracts in Andhra Pradesh are being aggressively encroached upon under the umbrella of political debauchery and official nepotism
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On Eve's of footsteps
The Beijing Conference on Women was a revelation of the 20th Century woman's status vis a vis environment and other issues
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The malaise down south
There's enough water in the tanks of Bangalore, Madras and Hyderabad, but more than enough corruption leaves the south high and dry
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Filthy lucre
US's Democrats and Republicans break common bread over the fairness, or otherwise, of the Regulatory Reform Bill that could make industry accountable for the phenomenal fouling of America
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Scales out of balance
A United Nations conference reveals the sense of desperate urgency concerning the oceans' rapidly depleting fish stocks
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Punjab: end of the revolution ?
Cost of production has spiralled, but the rate of increase in production has not shown a similar trend. Ecological and social costs, meanwhile, are totally disregarded
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200 years of groping in the dark...
...and latest findings have 2 groups of mutually hostile astronomers still going cockeyed trying to gauge the age of the universe