Don't make the world dysfunctional
It is interesting how the coalitions of the willing and the wanting shift in this world. When it comes to negotiations on ecological globalisation conventions from climate change to biodiversity
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Don't blame it, on, nature
THE misery caused by this year"s drought was unnecessary. Typical of India"s weather, rainfall in several parts dipped below the normal last year but these fluctuations were small. Yet we failed to
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Time for Green from the ground up
The show is over. It's time to stop talking and get down to work
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but why CNG?
Particles in diesel exhaust are toxic and can harm the foetus. Given the high levels of particulate pollution in Delhi, CNG is the cleanest option available
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Sowing less, reaping bare
Yet another controversial move by our environment and forests ministry could ring the death knell for India's biodiversity
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Living on the edge
They say the eye of the storm is calm. This is what I found when I visited the epicentre of war tensions in India, the city of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir. This was a week when foreigners were
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Guidelines for the re-structured accelerated power development and reforms programme (APDRP) during XI plan
The focus area of the programme shall be the actual demonstrable performance in terms of sustained loss reduction, establishment of reliable and automated systems for sustained collection of accurate base line data, and the adoption of information technology in the areas of energy accounting shall be necessary pre-conditions before sanctioning any regular distribution strengthening project.
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A tool to aid democracy lies rusting
That concerned citizens have the right to approach the courts on matters of social justice and that India's constitution, by implication, guarantees ecological justice are indeed ideas that have done
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Inhuman trials
Doubts cloud foreign firm s hepatitis drug tests in India
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Is water use sustainable?
No. In the last 100 years, global population tripled, but freshwater use increased sixfold
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Small monies, few hitches
BEYOND MICRO-CREDIT . Thomas Fisher and M S Sriram . Published by Vistaar Publications . New Delhi . 2002 . Rs 340 Micro finance is fast catching up. As a development strategy, such finance is
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A tradition is revived
Across the Palk Strait, Sri Lanka turns back the pages and rejuvenates its traditional indigenous systems of medicine
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Uttaranchal farmers upset at upcoming tea estates
The Uttar Pradesh government in 1996 (now Uttaranchal) started an ambitious tea plantation programme, which was to be spread across 12,000 hectares (ha). It included a series of tea estates to aid
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Sustained Conservation
Only a strong political commitment for water conservation will ensure the survival of these structures
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Counterpoint: Ropeway to Alto?
How access could change Nepali villages forever
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The strength of the future
Composite materials, which can be tailored to specifications and strengths and ultimately replace even steel, have come of age in India.
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Fly in a mess
To the Wopkaimin of central Papua New Guinea, Mount Fubilan is a sacred mountain sitting on top of the land of the dead. To exploration geologists in the 1960s, it was a 2,200-metre peak that could
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Hidden sink uncovered
A recent finding shows that over 35 billion tonnes of 'mysteriously missing' carbon dioxide from fossil fuels burnt over four decades went to ground in the coniferous forests of the North.
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Coping with biodiversity
Internal pressures weakened India's stand on funding at the Conference of Parties on Biodiversity Convention held in Nassau in November
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Promising water
NDA's promise on water is nothing more than words. And at best it means a lot of valuable taxpayer money literally thrown down the drain