Nucleocracy's nonsense
THE chairperson of the Atomic Energy Regulation Board (AERB), A Gopalakrishnan, has urged the media and public to take a sensible view of the accidental leak of radioactive waste from the Waste
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Oil spoil
The planned scuttling of the superannuated Brent Spark oil rig sparks off an international protest
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A few rotten NGOs...
...have create enough of a stink to taint the rest of the much vaunted 'Third Sector', says a government funded body
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Sea change in the forest
Tribals in Orissa's Eastern Ghats range are giving up shifting cultivation and fiercely protecting their forests
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Hunger statistics
FOOD INSECURITY ATLAS OF RURAL INDIA . FOOD INSECURITY ATLAS OF URBAN INDIA . M S Swaminathan Research Foundation . World Food Programme . 2001 and 2002 "Indian famines are famines of work, not of
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Nukes iced
Russia's nuclear recklessness could haunt the Northern regions for centuries to come
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Nuked into submission
Trampling opposition, the nuclear armed nations succeeded in extending the NPT
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The nuclear outrage
The recently concluded conference to extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (npt) has once again driven home the message that hypocrisy is the buzzword in the present world order. After nearly 2
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Brushing up
India's good old neem tree could be used by industry if it stands by its assurances of research and resources
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Let it be martyrdom, not murder
IQBAL Masih's assassination cannot be condoned. His crime: he dared to speak out against child labour. The 12-year-old boy was riddled with bullets on April 16, Easter Sunday, while cycling
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'Commercialisation alone can sustain non conventional energy sources'
G V RAMAKRISHNA is a member of the Planning Commission, currently dealing with the energy sector. The former Indian Administrative Service officer was India's ambassador to Belgium from 1988 1990. He was appointed chairperson of t
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Inspecting the Inspection Panel
THE Independent Inspection Panel of the World Bank ( WB ) has inspired hope among many environmental activists and organisations. They expect it to provide the much-needed scrutiny of the Bank"s
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Thrust and Parry
What delegates wrangled about in CoP 8, issue by issue
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A hazardous voorkshop
The Dakar workshop on toxic waste trade left both the exporting countries and green activists fuming
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Recycling colonialism
MANY industrialized countries regard their developing counterparts as dumpyards - destined receivers of hazardous by products and waste generated by their hi-tech lifestyle and consumerism. This
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Barefoot doctors
Backward Bihar villagers receive healthcare from barefoot 'first aid physicians'
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A shredded project
After the proposed Nylon 6,6 plant in Goa was discussed threadbare and opposed by many, the Greens succeeded in having the project shifted out
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Smokescreen
The most powerful government in the world and the behemoth tobacco industry are waging a ding-dong battle over...well, cigarettes
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Unexpected relief
Nobody expected farm forestry and exotics to become a major source of firewood
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Red alert in Chhattisgarh
Land acquisition is at the centre of intense political and social disputes in the tribal hinterland of Chhattisgarh. On the one hand, Naxal extremists enforce their version of justice by opposing land alienation. But the new state has its compulsion