As deadly as thermal power
Newly flooded reservoirs, which store water for hydroelectric plants, sometimes generate large amounts of greenhouse gases, comparable to those produced by thermal power plants.
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At the feet of poverty
THE Aravallis, the oldest and hoariest mountain range in India, are today some of the most barren sentinels in the country. At the foothills of this range, which extends all the way from
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A tribute to P R Mishra
P R Mishra used the power of the community to transform the barren landscape of Sukhomajri into a model for forest regeneration
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Damn these dams
While dam busting, engineers should take care to save the entire river system from degradation
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Courting green
When the executive fails, people seek redressal from courts. In some cases, the courts have merely put the seal of approval on the actions of citizens' pressure groups. In others, the remedies have only addressed the problems in part. The earth still bl
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Coast is unclear
<I>The official hostility to the most important instrument for safeguarding India's coastal ecology may prove disastrous</I>
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Profiting from ecological subsidies
GUJJARS are up in arms because they resent being thrown out of their homes by the proposed Rajaji National Park in Uttar Pradesh. In coastal Orissa, Chilika fisherfolk are protesting the allocation
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Cries of anguish
Most Indians are defenceless against the fine toxic particles in the air largely products of vehicular emissions and scientists are finding newer and deadlier things about pollution. Surprisingly, this is not confined to metropolitan cities. Evidence
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Making profits for the West
While western investors are lining their pockets with Papua New Guinea's rich natural resources, all the government is getting in return is a degraded environment.
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From the frying pan to fire
Sweden may be trying hard to control the phenomenon of acid rain, but the end result is another crisis at hand a dwindling Population of the moose
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United Colours of Industry
Of all dyes produced across the world, 11 per cent goes out as effluents. 2 per cent from manufacturing and as much as 9 per cent from colouring. Each year, India produces 64,000 tonnes of dyes, 7,040 tonnes of which are directly discharged into the envir
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A historic crime
Delhi was once green, cool and never water
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MONEYMAKERS
COMPU RECORDS: The staff at River Hills West Healthcare Center in Pewaukee, Wis.,in the US are done forever with the tiresome patient logbook, where they maintained the minutest details of the
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Loving trees is not enough
Can merely conserving trees save the environment?
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Food insecurity
Environmental degradation would undermine China s food security in the coming 30 years
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The microbes strike back
Diseases that were cheerfully believed to have been eradicated are inexplicably cropping up again in India in deadlier, drug resistant forms
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The states see red
TILL the other day, the Rajasthan chief minister, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, seemed to spend much of his time frozen on an anti-environmentalist platform, ranting against the Union ministry of
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Squatters' rights
The issue of toilet space for 8.1 million slumdwellers in India's 4 major metros threatens to expand into a matter of social rights
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When participation holds sway
Gouditikra in Orissa provides a model of how community participation can transform a village
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Uphill task completed
IN THE past century, humans have polluted the oceans, poisoned rivers and lakes, made deserts of good, arable land, felled forests, and severely eroded the mountainsides. This book seeks to protect