London gallery displays recycled human waste
Three rooms of London's Lisson Gallery are currently home to 21 blocks of recycled human waste.  I walk in between them, passing my fingers over the surface of one, round the corner of
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Homework on global summits
Representatives of the South must pull up their socks on garnering vital data on the ongoing policy debates
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Simply unpredictable
Despite using satellites and supercomputers, meteorologists are still baffled by the monsoon, unable to say precisely when it will occur and how good -- or bad -- it will be
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Disappearing act
Overexploitation, increasing salinity and industrial pollution are threatening groundwater resources in several parts of the country
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Farmers can only teach traditional knowledge
<font class='UCASE'><font color=red>P S Ramakrishnan</font></font> , former director of G B Pant University in Nainital, Uttar Pradesh and currently professor at the School of Environmental Sciences in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, spoke to <
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New raj wars the old
Its high time the panchayati raj institutions in India reviewed their actual role in spelling out developmental processes
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What is Sustainable Development?
Sustainable development, the buzzword in environmental circles, is largely misunderstood. It can only come about in a society which can learn from its mistakes in handling natural resources. This new column gives our readers the background of cont
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Gasping millions
Asthma, the bane of modern life, stalks the young ones and the affluent. It will strike 32 million people in India by 2010. The silent strangler has a propensity to waylay its victims, striking with stealth. An analysis into what triggers the killer which
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An Environmental Agenda for the New Government
The NDA government must have a proactive and positive environment agenda. It must strengthen environmental oversight and not weaken regulations. But it must go beyond clearance of projects to take
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Fall from grace
From archangels to archfiends the reputation of IAS officers has certainly nosedived. Anil Agarwal, director, Centre for Science and Environment, and N C Saxena, director, Lai Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussorie, share their v
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More or less equal
God made all humans equal, but some are more equal than others when it comes to consuming the world's resources
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For a cleaner world
To press for more sustainable and equitable utilisation of the world s resources, India and France seek closer ties
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Blueprints for change
THE CONFERENCE has just ratified the Earth Charter, the name of which has been changed to the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development at the behest of developing countries. This puts
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Industry pays
In the face of public pressure, Indian industry appears albeit dimly to be ready to clean up its act
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Africa is heading for trouble
The founding president of African Academy of Science, <font class='UCASE'><font color=red><b>Thomas R Odhiambo</b></font></font> , has been working to evolve a framework necessary for stimulating technological development and environmental protection i
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Just preventing the worst
Not for nothing is Germany's BUND at the vanguard of the global environmental movement. It offers not only criticism but solutions as well
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Policy drift
Rainfed regions are those where crop production is exclusively dependent upon rainfall. In India they cover 177 districts and exist in all agro-climatic regions but are mostly concentrated in the
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Are we ready for global unity?
EVERY time an American family decides to take its car out, the resulting carbon dioxide adds to the existing stock in the atmosphere for at least a hundred years. When the polar cap cannot
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Bigger than some governments
When it started, it was considered a part of the lunatic fringe. Greenpeace is today perhaps the most influential of green movements
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Networking a change
East Asian countries could be in for trouble if they continue to pursue developmental policies that are not eco friendly