Steel manufacturer in the dock
Prompted by protests, the Maharashtra government is considering action against a steel manufacturing unit for causing water pollution.
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Hope in sight for indigenous people
The UN is finalising a draft declaration on special rights for indigenous people, but this is being opposed by some governments.
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Understanding Adivasis
Tapan Bose's Jharkhand, 10 years in the making, has a participative view of the timeless, unspoilt lives of Adivasis stripped of their land
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The angry giants
Soil conservation work came cheap in Jhabua, but a lot remains to be done
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A farcical budget
The BJP was the only party which mentioned environmental issues in its poll manifesto. But the budget ignores it entirely
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Past lessons, future strategies
Studying the history of human interaction with nature can be very useful in formulating resource management policies. It can also provide a clearer insight into the causes of poverty
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Crocodiles lend themselves very naturally to captive breeding
As far back as 1978, India's so called "snake man", <font class=UCASE>ROMULUS WHITAKER</font>, the man who played with reptiles as if they were spaghetti, demonstrated that conserving wildlife did not necessarily mean robbing local people of a liveliho
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Sustainable Energy Finance Summer Academy, 15-20 July 2012, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
This summer academy provides decision makers and project developers with a comprehensive framework on renewable energy and energy efficiency financing projects to meet the necessary understanding and actions
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Lightning seeds
Australia banks on forest power to light up towns
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Gene transfer yields pest resisting rice strain
Darshan S Brar, who has been working for years on rice hybrids at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, talks about gene transfer techniques that develop resistance to insects in plants.
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A better mantra?
At the Moscow conference on 50 years of nuclear power, scientists and policy makers were firm in their belief that nuclear energy was the "only available antidote' to climate change. "There are
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Agenda for Tianjin, Cancun and beyond
<p><b>It is in the interest of developing countries to agree to legally binding national emission limits alone to secure their fair share of the global carbon budget.</b><br />
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Homework on global summits
Representatives of the South must pull up their socks on garnering vital data on the ongoing policy debates
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Environmental Negotiations
Environmental negotiations have slowly turned into petty business transactions, not the establishment of fair and just global environmental governance systems
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Biomass to briquettes
A new technique to produce efficient and cheap fuel from agricultural waste
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Gunning for ignition
On the anvil are lasers that can achieve thermonuclear fusion at a faster rate
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Local breeds first
Strategies need to be worked out and implemented immediately if India is to benefit from animal conservation
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Water management outpourings
ONE of the major criticisms against large surface irrigation projects was the way the water was mismanaged, leading to conflict between head- and tail-end users, waterlogging and soil salinity. In
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Ceramic coat makes AIDS drug more efficient
Scientists claim a new mode of administering drugs would strip the main AIDS drug Azidothymidine AZT of its side effects.
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Whither food security?
RELEASED at the Food Summit in Rome in November 1996, the book presents a disturbing account of India's agricultural production status and mismanagement of resources by the government. The book,