Fortifying ecofront
Can existing constitutional safeguards adequately address the environmental concerns?
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Deadly Dimensions
Diesel may be the most commercially viable fuel at present, but one that raises serious doubts on the future of urban health. <font class='UCASE'>Sundeep Salvi</font> of Air Pollution Research Group, Southhampton, UK, talks to <font class='UCASE'>Sari
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Right to fish
Tawa shows the way in ensuring fishing rights to people
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Water visions
Past experiences in tackling river pollution have been disheartening. The recent call for recognising this water source as an ecosystem is a start in the right direction but one that needs to be backed by solid action
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Nurturing the future
A comprehensive set of rules is essential to regulate research and facilitate commercialisation in biotechnology. <font class='UCASE'>Patricia Sierra Bl zquez</font> , director of the Centre of Molecular Immunology <font class='UCASE'>CIM</font> , Cu
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Exploding the myth
harvard scientists have a place in the sun when it comes to biology. And with mentors like E O Wilson, the university faculty has a particularly tough act to follow. Stephen Palumbi a professor of
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Programme plugged
Urban rainwater harvesting will require a strategy that has different components. We have to recognise that just passing a law is not enough
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Reason to celebrate?
The biodiversity bill has finally been approved by the Parliament standing committee on science, technology and the environment. But is the way clear for its passage?
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Symbolic solution?
In the recent discussion about reforming the international environmental governance structure, there have been calls for a World Environment Organisation
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Coma after death
Child victims of a frayed medical service and a government programme gone wrong raise a mute question
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Making bureaucracy work
India has two problems; one, bureaucrats and their complicated procedures and two, politicians who do not understand bureaucrats and their complicated procedures <br>
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Pricing the precious
A pricing mechanism and harvesting techniques will solve water crisis
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A clean disinvestment
Now disinvestment must also go green!
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Caught in the net
The recent ban on shark hunting is only a partial victory for the conservationists. To make it a success, better networking between the coastal authorities and fisherfolk is essential. <font class='UCASE'>Biswajit Mohanty</font> , president of Wildl
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Roots breathing heavy
at first glance, the photographs on display fail to stir one's imagination. The vast mangrove forests along the Orissa coastline are just as picturesque as any other, with little pretension of
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WTO and drugs
What has Doha done to help poor nations meet their drug needs?
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Distant dream
stories of how a promising technology can lose out in the maddening race for survival or the top slot always make interesting reading. This book is another such instance. But much more than that it
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Bt Cotton imbroglio
A failure of our scientific preparedness. Where are our scientists?
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Mass destruction knocking at the door
The threat of terrorists using biological weapons has become a reality. How prepared is India to a fight a possible germ war?
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The chronology
In the past we have very few incidents in which biological agents were used by Non State actors