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Clear concepts, unclear courses

THE National Front (NF)the opposition alliance (between the JanataDal (it)) and some regional parties)led by V P Singhcame to power atthe Centre in 1989. The JD'S environmental concernsone of themost
- 14/05/1996
Crying over split oil

Rapid modernization in the oil industry is needed, as sloppy management and efficiency in tracing recent subterfuges has led to the loss of thousands of tones of oil in Russia. The environmental impact remains to be assessed
- 30/03/1996
- Down To Earth
- - Environment
  - Russia
Delhi ridge: a lifeline in danger

Encroachments by the poor and the rich alike are proving to be the ridge's bane. The malady is monumental, and the court's healing touch has provided incomplete relief at best
- 14/05/1997
Hybrid buses: green steps in dark shadows

The pilot project on electric, hybrid buses for public transport
In A Spot

Are the new industrial siting rules a boon or a bane?
- 14/01/2000
Taking the lead

India's chief ministers are beginning to take note of environmental problems. But just about. The Centre for Science and Environment conducted a survey of Down To Earth readers and India's environmentalists. A report on the nature of the work carri
- 14/02/1999
Peer Review

Environmentalists express their views on the chief minister of their states
- 14/02/1999
Dead fish tell tales...

...as the case of Betwa proves. Tales which have the power to move a whole town in Madhya Pradesh and send the notoriously slothful official machinery into a whirligig of activity. It is all about a people’s struggle to save the highly polluted Betwa rive
- 30/01/1997
For the people...

Conservation policies practised in the developing world need to tread cautiously on territories which had for generations, belonged to the people, says a statement by the Centre for Science and Environment
- 30/12/1995
- Down To Earth
- - Wildlife
  - Tiger
  - National Parks
  - Biodiversity
  - CSE
'Serious study has not yet begun'

R Uma Shankar, Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, speaks to Down To Earth
- 28/02/2004
- - Ecosystems
  - Soil Resources
  - Agriculture
  - Pest Control
  - WTO
  - Flora
  - Fauna
  - Biodiversity
  - Invasive Alien Species
  - GATT
  - Research
  - Australia
  - New Zealand
  - India
  - Statistics
The spirit of the sanctuary

FIVE YEARS ago, the social forestry department in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra cleared several trees from a forest near Nandivse village to plant acacia trees. It did not know that the 4-ha patch was a sacred grove surrounding the temple of a powerful local deity, Kal Bhairon. The villagers, too, joined in because they were paid for the felling and planting.
- 30/01/1994
Nature's minor gifts

Even as microbes -silent and efficient behind-the-screen contributors to the ecosystem -continue to revel under the spotlight abroad, in India, it has yet to acquire its due importance. Indian germplasm, aided by non-existence of biodiversity conser
- 30/03/1997
- Down To Earth
That sinking feeling

PLANET Earth would have been an utterly lifeless blob of space debris if it hadn"t been for the water that covers 70 per cent of its surface. But for reasons that have to do with both corporate human greed and amazing myopia, the vanguard of "modern" civi
- 29/06/1995