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A question of harvesting water
The only way to prevent traditional water tanks from self-destruction is to hand over their maintenance to the people
The only way to prevent traditional water tanks from self-destruction is to hand over their maintenance to the people
Post communist Siberia has hardly any paved streets, but is brimming with cellular phones and $40,000 jeeps
Tourism threatens the Jaisamand lake near Udaipur
After a gap of more than 30 years, Santhal tribals recently invoked an age old practice of meting out punishment to a sex offender
Cotton farmers in northwest India were taken by surprise when, despite a pesticide blitzkrieg, the American bollworm devastated half their crops. Now, the farmers can"t pay up the loans they took to purchase pesticides and are turning to other crops. A to
UNDER the guise of concern for the environment and public health, Western governments continue to push the private agendas of large multinational interests. Experts advising international green funds
The interests of Agra and its citizens must figure prominently in any effort to save the Taj
It is mostly the preventable diseases which lead to fatal maladies due to negligence that hold our lives in stake, reveals the 1994 WHO report
The solution lies in making waste management a community exercise
The question of what constituted a balanced Indian diet had the British totally confused
THE work of Robert Chambers, an eminent rural sociologist, has influenced academics as well as field workers and NGOs. This book aims to enunciate a new work ethic commensurate with his commitment to
When it started, it was considered a part of the lunatic fringe. Greenpeace is today perhaps the most influential of green movements
To start with, the environmental community should develop a shared green manifesto and jointly put it forward to the people as its own vision of green tinged prosperity and development
The sea would gobble up more than 5,700 sq km of India's coastal land if emission of greenhouse gases grows unchecked
When the cyclone slammed into Bangladesh on April 29 earlier this year, the anxiety in many quarters of the world was especially heightened in anticipation of huge fatalities. Exactly to the day 3
Despite readily available loans, industry is wary of producing solar photovoltaic devices on a large scale
About 13,000 eyeballs are collected every year in India, but only about 7,000 of them are actually used in corneal graft surgeries. One of the main reasons for this pathetic situation is that
This is a story of justice denied. <br> On February 13, 1996, the Supreme Court, the highest seat of justice in the country, ruled that five units of a particular company, producing toxic chemicals in Bichhri village in Rajasthan's Udaipur district, b
IT IS painted bright red with big black spots and looks like a cross between a lady bug and a toy car. It is the ultra-mini Haishen or the "car for the masses" that is about to hit the gigantic
The United States has decreed that GATT will have the last word on intellectual property rights, thus throwing the Biodiversity Convention to the winds