The power of the people
villagers in Thailand have threatened to seal the forests in Kanchanaburi if the government did not stop work on the Thai-Burmese gas pipeline. They had earlier submitted a letter to Prime
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Stop reclamation plan
local environmental groups in South Korea have demanded an end to a large-scale reclamation project now underway on the southwestern coast of the nation. "The project should be scrapped
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NAFTA kicks in, Mexican farmers protest
The full introduction of the North American Free Trade Agreement (nafta) has raised concerns among Mexico's farmers who are agitating against it. With nafta kicking in fully on January 1, 2008,
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Unwanted guest
Furore over the transfer of a snow leopard from the City Forest National Park in Srinagar to Darjeeling
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Thin end of the wedge?
Maharashtra legalises contract farming, says farmers interests won t be harmed
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Judicial Drive
Even the country's highest court cannot do much to control corruption
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Cooperative revival
Centre keen on implementing Vaidyanathan committee report
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Sans eco logic
Uttaranchal's drought declaration
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Under siege
The Adyar creek and estuary in Chennai is falling victim to development
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Why are good harvests bad?
Harvests in different parts of the South have been a mixed blessing this year. In late November, the Argentinian peso suffered its biggest decline against the dollar in six months as the end of the
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Green levy plan scrapped
Andhra Pradesh government junks ecofriendly tax plan proposed for 15 year old polluting vehicles
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Freeze on special economic zones lifted
the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) lifted the freeze on special economic zones (sezs) on April 5, 2007, with some policy dilutions. It fixed the upper limit for sezs at 5,000 hectares.
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Cash crunch
Lack of resources and delayed official action could jeopardise the future of traditional herbal medicine in the country
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Kolaghat: indifference to a disaster
Kolaghat's (in Midnapore, West BengaD 1.260 MIN thermal power project has been the bane of thousands who have been struck by silicosis due to flyash generated by the project; silicosis is caused by
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Laxity to be probed
taking into account charges levelled against the French government, alleging that it had downplayed risks to public health after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a judge has ordered that
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New panel to modify energy Acts
THE department of power has set up a working group to prepare new legislation to modify the 14 existing Acts that affect energy consumption. The 10-member panel comprises experts in energy, law,
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Devastating showpiece
The Dakshina Kannada district will become Karnataka's showpiece of industrial development, the state government has been saying. However, a study begun in 1993 has projected a rather depressing
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Damned, eitherway
The closure of 25 polluting units in Gujarat on the orders of the High Court in early May and its subsequent fallout has caught the state government on the wrong foot. The 50-page order castigated
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Treading warily
The Meghalaya government is taking no chances even though uranium mining in the state has been given a clean chit by a high-level team led by Atomic Energy Commission chairperson R Chidambaram.
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Amazon loss shows upward trend
Brazil is losing its Amazonian forests to farmers at an unprecedented rate, latest satellite observations have shown. The destruction has so alarmed the Brazilian government that it called an