Spill over
Untreated domestic and industrial effluents is polluting Bangalore s Ballandur lake
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Criminal waste
Reduced to filthy, foul smelling cesspools, with mosquito larvae arawing their lazy, intricate patterns on the green surfaces, the same takes and tanks in urban areas draw a passerby's game is when purple hyacinths bloom and disguise their filth. O
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What's it all about?
classification of dyesM Dyes can be classified according to their chemical structure or according to their use. However, classifications vary from agency to agency though there are some fundamental
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Behind the buzzword
The NGO movement in South Asia has come a long way in the past 10 years. Last month, a panel discussion between some of them emphasised introspection and self-repair
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Salvaged sands
One man commission's rebuff forces Goa government to jettison proposal to privatise beach
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Where fishing amounts to thieving
People of Totladoh find themselves on the wrong side of the law in tigerland
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INTERVIEW: PAWAN KUMAR CHAMLING
"NGOs have the most important role to play"
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Eyeing the coastlines
Further dilution of the rules safeguarding the Indian coastal ecosystem has just been proposed. Under the guise of providing land to poor fisherfolk for their settlements, is the administration surreptitiously letting in Indian companies and multinationa
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Storehouse of water
although the importance of Himalaya-Karakoram as the largest storehouse of fresh water in the lower latitudes, and the important role of their snow and ice in maintaining the flows of the Indus,
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Sustaining boredom
CSD has become a stratospheric environment in which no wisdom gets injected from the perspective of the poor <br>
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Agriculture: no relation to ecology
In India, the issue of food security has always been intimately involved with that of ecological degradation. In 1he late '60s and early'70s, the green revolution was introduced to increase food
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Drying wetlands
Beyond the tigers of Sunderbans: A closer look at the leeches and the beautiful blue devil
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Shadow over calm waters
Tourism threatens the Jaisamand lake near Udaipur
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Barren continent
After the destruction of Europe s conifers, it took millions of years for the regeneration of forests
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Industrial blackmail!
Having done precious little to clean up its polluting act in the past 30 years, a Kerala factory is indirectly blackmailing the state government with a closure notice if it does not get raw material at dirt cheap rates
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West Bengal proposes alternative site for Nandigram chemical hub
a flat, 21 km strip of land in the middle of the Haldi river, three metres above sea level and accessible only by motorised boats, is the West Bengal government's alternative to Nandigram for a
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Tribals raise green issues in Nigerian polls
Clashes between the Ogoni tribals and the police over the laying of an oil pipeline have made ecological degradation a key issue in Nigeria's presidential polls.
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Poor pay for ecological neglect
Droughts seem to be here to stay. Wrong development policies, governmental indifference and relief schemes which don't work have led to a situation where a large part of the nation faces scarcity despite a year of almost normal rainfall
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The trouble with the Trapezmium
A public interest petition in the Supreme Court to shift industries from the Taj Trapezium, based on a report forwarded by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, opens up a Pandora"s box of objections to experts" ways of tackling the
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Development Deathtraps
Bonded labour, environmental devastation, abject working conditions... the stone crushing units of Haryana are a shame