...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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Only look for answers
I happened to attend, recently, a jan sunwai peoples court on water, convened by the National Federation of Indian Women. Women came from over 15 states to report on the state of their water.
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Discordant notes dash empowerment dreams
A clash of opinions has put paid to all hopes of a consensus on the empowerment of people living in and around national parks and sanctuaries
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Partners in prosperity
Sukhomajr, a village in Haryana, has come to symbolise how community efforts at natural regeneration can improve both the forests and the people's standard of living.
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Paying a high price
Forty thousand dams have rendered 60 million people homeless the worldover
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War over water
Mismanaging water can create a crisis and lead to panic. This is exactly what led to a water riot near Jamnagar in Gujarat
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Revitalised role forecast for people's movements
It is becoming possible to utilise the capacities that exist outside the state such as non governmental organisations to influence state policies and, in the coming years, India is going to witness dissatisfaction being increasingly expressed throug
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Drying wetlands
Ladakh's high altitude wetlands are under severe stress from the livestock population as well as tourist influx
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KOTTAYAM
A sleepy town finds its rivers dirtied
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Is it on the right track?
Controversy has dogged the Konkan railway project since its inception. Today, many influential Goans are up in arms against the present alignment of the track, which, they allege, would wreck the state"s environment. Railway officials, of course, disagree
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The Korean conundrum
Demand management is better for both the environment and the economy. The sooner South Korea realises this, the easier it would be for the nation to get out of the IMF shackles unhurt
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How sustainable a partner?
Industry s role in managing the dwindling freshwater resources of the world was highlighted at the sixth session of the Commission for Sustainable Development at New York. But countries of the South are hesitant about treating a social resource as a
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War and ecology
NATO strikes on chemical plants and refineries around Belgrade could lead to an ecological disaster, warn Serb officials
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Shirdi"s Sun shrine
• The temple complex at Shirdi in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district, dedicated to the 19th century saint Sai Baba, now has one of the world's largest solar cooking systems •The solar rays are used to heat water and generate steam that is directed through pipes into steam cookers used for cooking rice, dal
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A sea invasion
AN AQUATIC army of American origin has invaded the Black Sea and is wreaking havoc on the fisheries there. Small jellyfish-like, tentacled creatures called ctenophores arrived there in 1982, hiding
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Fishing for trouble
A fight over pickerel catch in Ontario turned into a bitter wrangle when the US started stretching every trade rule in the book
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One long yarn?
Recent studies say deforestation figures in west Africa have been exaggerated by Northern agencies
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Dangerous mines
Burying of waste by the mining industry can severely damage plant and animal life
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Endless misery
muynak, a small town lying about 1,000 km west of the Uzbek capital Tashkent, bears testimony to one of the worst ecological disasters in the world - the shrinking of the Aral Sea. Once a green,
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Changing for the better
the Reds seem to be going green as environmental consciousness descends upon them in a big way. Prime Minister Li Peng, at an environmental protection conference held in mid-July in Beijing, said