A dying craft
The technique of producing iron from low grade ore used by the Agarias was environmentally sound. But the community is marginalised today, and their craft is a dying art
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The great American whims
The murky wrangle between environmental zeroes and heroes of the 104th Congress in the US becomes evident
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INDIA
The fast-depleting forests of the Western Ghats will be the subject of a US $11 million-project which was recently endorsed by the United Nations Environment Pro gramme. The project will involve
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Muynak: life in the disaster zone
Muynak, which once lay on the coast of the Aral Sea nearly 70 km away from it. And since there is no road salty, toxic desert that has replaced the former seabed, it is no difficult to reach the
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A minister's choice
On global issues Kamal Nath was prepared to take positions unpalatable to his bureaucrats and worked closely with CSE. But he was not willing to go far on national issues, especially on the crucial one of participatory natural resource management
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GREEN REMEDIES
The status of health can be improved with proper environment management
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Knowledge and despair
Age old tribal and indigenous know how could be lost to marauding urbanisation
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Water distribution of Rajsamand Lake in Rajasthan cause of rift
there are conflicting claims over the distribution of water of the Rajsamand Lake by residents of Rajnagar township in Rajasthan and the farmers there. The conflict began after the Water
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Bone damage
Effluents threaten Nilgiri
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Deadly slip up
An adulterated cooking medium sparks off panic in India, but the government remains clueless on how to deal with the crisis
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A million mutinies
The government destroys natural resources; when villagers revive these, it reasserts ownership. This is an official loot of nature
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Drained dry...
...are the local wetlands in Assam on account of short sighted flood control measures and unsavoury fishing practices
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No truck with green
WE HAVE a perspectivebut nopolicieson environmentdeclares Sitarain Yechury, the suave Communist Party of India-Marxist (cpi-m) politburo member. Green causes, till now, have lain low on the
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Hosiery havoc
Effluent treatment schemes get underway in a Tamil Nadu town famed for its hosiery units
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Small is more
A small water harvesting structure can produce amazing economic crossover effects. The same may not be true for large canals
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Raging rig
The inferno at the Oil and Natural Gas Commission's rig in Andhra Pradesh leaves India bawling for help
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State of despair
Criminals followed corrupt politicians into grabbing contracts related to earthworks. Today, they fund political parties and virtually run the state
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Bust the mills
The governor of Argentina's Entre Rios province, bordering Uruguay, recently announced his decision to file a complaint with us -based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, opposing the
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Conspiracy to kill
More than a million people die every year because the government cannot ensure clean air and water. In the years to come, this number will rise further, unless strong steps are taken to start controlling pollution right away