A POPULATION expert sharply critical of India's achievements in curbing population growth. A demographer with scant respect for the census. A statistician who finds prevalent statistics misleading. A professional researcher who would rather rely on visual
HYBRID VEHICLE: Nissan Motor Company Limited of Tokyo said that it aimed to start sales of gasoline-electric hybrid cars in Japan at the beginning of the year 2000. The company's first hybrid
The US is trying to revive solar thermal power technology
At the onset of the Green Rating Project, cse set up a project advisory panel ( pap ) comprising industry leaders, judges, research and development experts, policymakers, academicians,
Government industrialist nexus and public apathy have become incentives for norm flounting industries in Gujarat
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
Middle class environmentalism isn t the way ahead
subsidy is an indirect payment given by governments for various economic and social reasons. A major part of the "cost' of the subsidy is paid by the government. At the same time, granting
OVERTURNING age-old fears, free trade is now being seen as the market miracle that will bail out the earth from the environmental mess it finds itself in; free trade is expected to bring about the
THE stability of the ecosystem on a global scale has become a central concern in the post-Cold War era. This crisis cannot be resolved by wishing away endemic consumerism or expecting governments
Faced with the century's worst recession Helsinki has had to cut back heavily on development aid. At stake are several international environmental projects.
A nonchalant French government plans to throw open its virgin islands to tourists and game hunters
Imagine this scene unfolding in one of the cool rooms off the magnificent Central Hall of the Indian Parliament: a Member of Parliament punches 2-fingered into an imported laptop 486, plugs it -- fax
Experts believe that the smog which enveloped Indonesia last year may return to aggravate the economic crisis that has engulfed the country
The increasing demand for kangaroo meat threatens this marsupial native to Australia
An unusual drought threatens agriculture in the Kashmir valley
In Raigarh district of Madhya Pradesh, tribals are fighting to save their only source of water from an industrial house. A woman has already died while sitting on a hunger strike
• Plan priorities ACRP assumes that once land and water resources are developed, the desired levels of yield and productivity will be achieved. Soil conservation and reclamation, irrigation
At Gandhiji's suggestion, Kumarappa undertook a survey of an area in Gujarat that was once most prosperous but had become prey to poverty and famine.
Cash-strapped Uttaranchal embarks on industrialisation. However, its policies are frightfully blind to green issues
