...a taste of dry death
As the Gujarat forest department persists in planting a weed that sucks dry all the water in its vicinity, the Little Rann of Kutch gets...
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The road ahead
India with its deplorable rural roads can learn a lesson from Madagascar, which has successfully implemented a decentralised system of constructing roads
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The liquid heat trap
A giant pond at a dairy in Gujarat is the world's largest water storehouse of the sun's energy and heats about 80,000 litres of water everyday
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It's a cow's life
Cattle in western Rajasthan struggle for survival as pastures continue to shrink
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sponsored blight?
Another monsoon. The season of suffering in India s flood plains. And of blaming upstream people for floods. Is there an end to this
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Bridging the gap
Pressured by a highly active civil society, the Kerala state government is actually giving power to the people. The decentralisation theory has been turned on its head. People get the money first, and then build the infrastructure to govern themselves. Bu
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Look what our neighbour is up to!
Myanmar has not sqandered its natural resources in an attempt to ape the West
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The closing of the gates
A controversy boiled over when the construction sluices were closed abruptly and affected scores of people
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Elite in an ivory tower
Just imagine India trying to impose trade sanctions against the <font class='UCASE'>US</font> for putting out too much carbon dioxide which can affect India s monsoon
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Tiny difference that made a miracle
The economic and ecological miracle of regeneration in Alwar district is being brought about by using just three per cent of the rainfall. This small percentage is being used for irrigation, and has
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Garbage to gold
In Bombay, simple technologies are being used to convert garbage into fuel and biofertilisers.
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Patkar unperturbed by exodus of villagers
Medha Patkar, doyenne of the Narmada Bachao Andolan NBA , which opposes the Sardar Sarovar Project SSP on the Narmada river, has won a major battle by getting the Union government to discuss the Rs 13,500 crore dam for the first time ever with her grou
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Reaping the benefits
CFM brings social and economic prosperity to several village communities
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Time running out in Manibeli
AFTER struggling for eight long years against the massive Narmada dam, the people of the valley are still caught between the devil and the deep blue sea -- in this case, the threat of submergence on
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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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A watershed plan
Recurrent droughts and floods coupled with mass poverty, chronic unemployment and pervasive malnutrition are the major challenges before India. The Union government usually responds by complaining about truant rains and doles out funds in an arbitrary man
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New hope for Himalayan wastelands
The seabuckthorn plant can change the lives of marginal farmers by enriching soil with nitrogen, preventing its erosion and providing numerous income avenues
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Is the sea rising?
RISING sea levels and drowning areas is one of the much publicised consequences of global waarming - in fact, sea levels do rise, the effect on island countries like the Maldives and those with long
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Indian scenario
A crippling lack of data prevents researchers from reaching conclusions
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The muck stops here
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