Navigating disaster
Experts say the most ambitious river navigation project in South America could ruin the Paraguay Parana river and the world s largest remaining wetland
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Wild at home
Private farms, cattle ranches and indigenous people help in managing wild animals, thereby giving a fillip to Zimbabwe s wildlife conservation policy
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Not a drop to waste
A couple of decades from now, the West may have to combat an unprecedented water crisis. Contamination and wastage will only hasten the process
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Who s to blame?
Management of protected forests is a hotly debated issue. In the absence of a sound policy based on a scientific approach, there are as many opinions as there are people. In the meantime, wildlife is getting threatened. And people living in and around pro
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A never ending battle
After four years and innumerable trips to courts of justice, Kodaikanal's skyline may not look very different. But for the Palani Hills Conservation Council, it is still too early to give up
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In the pay of plastics
India s biggest public sector unit is out to ape the West s fashion for unsustainable living
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People or bust
Anthropologists are realising that the rate of disappearance of cultures has become a serious problem, and are thus taking up activist roles
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Piloting disaster
I WOULD like to strongly denounce the message sent by Rajesh Pilot to this august assembly to discuss people's management of the Riljaji National Park by the Van Gujjars. It appears from his message
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The dam sham
Even as protests against the Bakun Dam Project grow more strident, the Malaysian government remains adamant on its decision to go ahead with it
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Will the gift of GAB be wasted?
Worried about the state of the world s largest underground source of freshwater, Australia gears up to save the Great Artesian Basin from mismanagement
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Mekong's miseries
A new regional treaty to usher in dams on the Mekong river has drawn flak from environmental groups
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Water in the sand
Experiments in rainwater harvesting are recharging parched aquifers in Kutch
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Doomed tomb
The future of the Taj Mahal is once again at stake because, the environment versus industry debate notwithstanding, pollution levels in Agra are rising once again.
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GOT IT!
Think tourism in India and the first images that will flash through your mind is the Taj Mahal and the Indian tiger. Tigers, and the protected areas created for their conservation, are the dominant motif of the picture postcard from favourite holiday de
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Buckling under
South Africa waters down proposed ban on plastic
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Vindaloo with a punch
FISH CURRY and Rice is the catchy title of the latest in the genre of citizens' reports on the state of the environment, but it tells you little about what the book contains. It "does attempt to
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Malai ropeway dinuhos, malai road chaahina
Please give me a ropeway, I don t need a road
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Furore over Zimbabwe's selection as head of UN body
Zimbabwe's election as the head of an important un environment body has generated much controversy. Francis Nhema, the country's minister of environment and tourism was nominated by Africa to head
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Fears haunt forestry project
A plan to protect the biodiversity of Thailand's forests ignores the needs of forest dwellers
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Infection threat from clean hospitals too
even clean hospitals can pass on infections to patients. Health experts around the world are trying to find ways to reduce hospital acquired infections (hais). Despite all the efforts to tackle