Hackers' paradise
A weak environmental regime in Brazil allows free rein to Asian logging companies to plunder through the Amazon forests
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When a river weeps...
Reduced to being a receptacle of household and industrial wastes and victimised by lopsided development, the Yamuna, Delhi's lifeline, is crying out for attention
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In which the count fell
A recent study establishes that sperm count has fallen drastically since the 1930s in the US and Europe
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My Copenhagen diary: How polluters won and we all lost
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b>Monday, December 14, 2009</b>: Standing in line in the freezing cold, waiting to be registered to the conference of parties to the climate change convention being held in Copenhagen, I have strange sense of foreboding that this will be an eventful but disappointing week.
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Will the Aral Sea ever come back?
"Forgive us, Aral. Please come back." These words written in chalk, on a ship sftKk in a sandy wasteland, which was once the bustling shore of the world"s fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea, tell a graphic tale of the human toll caused by am of the w
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Rape of the rock
The heavenly idyll of a carefree people, happy to welcome tourists, gay in their carnival, peaceloving and gastronomic, is being devastated due to the avarice of miners
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The original Mus
Researchers zero in on the Indian subcontinent as the possible birthplace of that most evasive of pesky mammals the house mouse
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Freedom on the freeway
A people's movement in northern California has weeded out the use of pesticide on highways
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Crisis in Krishna
Forest tracts in Andhra Pradesh are being aggressively encroached upon under the umbrella of political debauchery and official nepotism
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A hundred year war
It's been a century of research and implementation of malaria control strategies. But the disease continues to claim three million lives every year
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Navigating disaster
Experts say the most ambitious river navigation project in South America could ruin the Paraguay Parana river and the world s largest remaining wetland
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People who own cars make life unpleasant
<font class='UCASE'>John Whitelegg</font> of the School of Built Environment at Liverpool s John Moores University spoke to <font class='UCASE'>Anish Gupta </font> about Calcutta s transport problems and about why its salvation lies in improving the tra
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Chill blast
Did American scientists help Russia acquire its atomic bomb? A new book triggers off a major post Cold War controversy
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Malnourished Children
<font class='UCASE'><font color=red>S K Kabra</font></font> , associate professor in the paediatric pulmonology division of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi talks to <font class='UCASE'><font color=red>Nidhi Jamwal</font></font> about
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Droopy dead
New findings suggest the vulture might be falling prey to an infectious disease. The scientific community is not yet certain if the vulture s drooping head explains it all
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The poverty of Amartya Sen
Even the "sensitive" Sen has failed to understand ecological poverty"
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Himalayan water sharing system endangered
Modern practices are threatening to break up an unusual water tapping and water sharing process in Himachal Pradesh. Devised hundreds of years ago, it converted barren land in Spiti into fertile fields.
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Fireworks follow SMOKE
Tobacco companies will foot the medical bills of smokers who have cancer under an agreement with the US state of Florida. This spells bad times for the tobacco industry as the Clinton administration wants more in a national agreement
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How did it go wrong?
The corrupt and inefficient among pollution control authorities have surrendered India s groundwater to unscrupulous industrial units
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Pedalling to a new dawn
As India goes into economic overdrive, the urban explosion and its attendant traffic nightmares cry out for a radical alternative. DERK J VAN DER LAAN presents the case for the cheap and ecofriendly bicycle