An uphill task
How do you define and measure sustainable development? A host of non governmental organisations led by the Switzerland based World Conservation Union are trying to evolve a new approach to do just that
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Pollution, not rice accumulated methane
THOUGH a great deal of fuss has been raised in scientific circles over methane production by rice paddies and cattle in the developing world, which is likely to heat up the earth, the atmospheric
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Wipro in net
Charged with illegal e waste disposal
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Rooster calls no more
The tasty meat of a breed of poultry unique to Jhabua is turning out to be the its greatest enemy in the fight for survival
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UK wants to emit more
But EU rejects its plan
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Timarpur waste management company in Delhi set to revive plant
Timarpur waste management company in Delhi set to revive plant
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Solar lighting - No time to wait for grid or government
Less than a kilometer from Asia's largest Solar Termal plant, west of Bikaner, Rajasthan, lives the farmer Sabhu Khan. His hamlet is still unreached by the grid. Instead of the grid connection, he decided
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Change power generation configuration to stabilise the grid
<p>Two consecutive days of grid collapse has left almost half of India’s population without power.</p> <p>Three major grids – northern, north-eastern and eastern – have crashed. Reportedly,
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Reminiscing my visits of Swedish power plants
<p>This November brought back reflections of my two study visits of Swedish power plants. The visits were done during the same months of previous two years while pursuing higher studies at a Swedish university.
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Keralaites, get your rooftop solar and save a bundle!
<p>Kerala's 10,000 Solar Rooftop Programme is already in full swing with almost half (4700) rooftops signed up by mid-January 2013. Any Keralaite with 15 square meters of unshaded rooftop area can
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Weather bothers...
... was a small time occupation of the eccentric scientist just 20 years ago
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Tigers under threat from disappearing mangrove forest
Report shows vast forest, shared by India and Bangladesh, is being rapidly destroyed by environmental change A vast mangrove forest shared by India and Bangladesh that is home to possibly 500 Bengal
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Soaring greener heights
Surrey University in the UK, specialising in satellite engineering, is developing a hybrid rocket motor that uses liquid and solid fuel, both of which are environment friendly This breakthrough could make space satellites much easier and far cheap
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The road from Stockholm to Rio
It was the Stockholm conference, held exactly 20 years ago, which put environmental issues on the global agenda for the first time. But the contours of environmental negotiapons have changed a great deal from those early days
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'It really riles me to see developing countries pushed into a corner'
Tough talking Malaysian negotiator Wen Lian Ting explains why the North's stand on forests is morally unjust and politically untenable
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US, equity and the elephants in the room
<p>Indian top negotiator, R R Rashmi said yesterday at a <a href="http://cseindia.org/content/doha" target="_blank">side event</a> we had organized on equity in climate negotiations that they could not
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Energy politics (part 1): BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: will it force change?
<p>As I watched President Barack Obama speak on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico many thoughts crossed my mind. <br />
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IN THE DOCK!
What the CAG report says on India s scientific institutions
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BUFING syndrome for Obama
<p>Obama will grace COP15. And that is the biggest story out here. The story is so big that negotiators are forced to take this fact into their negotiating account. Why? It is because Obama cannot afford to lose a game. It does not really matter if the atmosphere or the planet goes to hell. Bottom line is that Obama must be able to claim a victory. <!--[endif]--><o p=""></o></p>
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Cancun, Climate negotiations and the national interest
<p>The time has come to develop a national consensus, define the national position and determine red lines for future negotiations, otherwise we risk endangering our future growth prospects.<br />