Charge of the right brigade
Lithium batteries, with numerous advantages over their ancestors, are scientists' new obsession as the ecofriendly cells
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Neemm manim, what else
The brouhaha about neern patents gets a forceful rebuttal
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Blood on its hands
Industry in Asia's largest chemical unit zone is like a terrorist outfit, devastating the atmosphere and, reportedly, killing people
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Conservation boomerang
Can protected areas survive the multitude of pressures without the participation of people? Neena Singh explores the issue
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Fish ticuffs
A grassroots level fight is on in the Philippines against big trawlers fishing in other people's waters, and related problems
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"Biodiversity treaty is misleading the Third World"
A known a crusader for traditional Indian medicine. P Pushpangadan, who completed his Ph.D from Aligarh University, is currently the director of the Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute tgbri in Thiruvananthapuram. The institute has championed
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Research is not magic solutions take a long time
S K SINHA, former director of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute IARI , is currently a National Professor at the Water Technology Centre. During his tenure, the IARI had seen intensive bask and applied research. Conventional
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Standing the test of drought
After the 1999 monsoon failed in several areas of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, there is a serious drought. Summer is a good four months away, and already there are reports of riots and deaths over water. But several villages are well equipped to face the w
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Water out of stone
A lift irrigation system helps tribals in Gujarat fight the tyranny of the seasons
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'I am rewriting Ayurvedic knowledge'
Vaidya Balendu Prakash is presently carrying out research work on Rasayan Shastra metal therapy , based on ayurveda. He has been successfully treating patients suffering from multiple sclerosis and leukaemia. All the medicines used are derived from natur
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Breaking the ice
The recent breaking away of a massive iceberg from the Antarctic peninsula has generated a heated debate on the bothers of global warming
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The wilder side of environment
Why are pretty films on wildlife so much more interesting than no holds barred environmental documentaries?
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Earth health
Clinically clean, gleamingly coloured, hermetically sealed fruits and vegetables face the challenge of organic food
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Till joys
Women in 3 districts in Tamil Nadu discover how to make money and ban booze for the first time
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Saving the World Bank
The new Inspection Panel, whose first brief is Nepal"s Arun III dam, is most certainly a radical step towards self-examination. It may cure the ills that afflict the World Bank - if it doesn"t itself succumb to the infection first, say the autho
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Rocking the Himalayas
Indian seismic experts are in a tizzy over predictions of an imminent gigantic earthquake in the central Himalayas
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The night the air turned poisonous...
...the much flouted crisis management system failed to activate itself, leaving the residents of Kardampuri colony in Delhi gasping for breath
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Rogue elephants in the backyard
A study explains why peaceful pachyderms go on rampages that leave crops and humans devastated
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Catch a falling star...
What on Earth are comets? And why do they behave whimsically like they do?
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The war of the footprints
As satellites proliferate over the Indian sky and competitors wrangle a bigger share of the market, Doordarshan gears up to….