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Protecting the endangered

Protected Areas in India have failed to reach the goal of preserving the endangered species
- 14/04/2001
Reach out to the common man

Kiran Karnik , Managing Director, Discovery Channel talks to Amit Shanker on ways to popularise environment issues
- 14/04/2001
A killer stalks Siliguri

Messing around with the environment has led to the emergence of new and deadly diseases
- 30/03/2001
Forests under threat

smoggy air damages plants, causes leaf injury, adversely affects plant growth and reduces fruit yield. Air pollutants such as sulphur, fluorides, ozone affect forest ecosystems adversely. This book
- 30/03/2001
Vultures on death row

Human persecution is the main cause behind the high mortality of vultures in India
- 30/03/2001
Foot in mouth disease

Only a sea change in farming techniques will help save the European agricultural sector from disasters like the foot and mouth disease
- 30/03/2001
Coming out of coma

A decline in its funds and erosion in its mandate have made the United Nations Environment Programme virtually ineffective. Bharat H Desai looks at recent attempts to revitalise it
Making a killing

Only poachers profit from rules and regulations that alienate local people from natural resources
- 14/03/2001
A brief mania called Hawkins

Barely 100 out of the 5,000 present at the Stephen Hawking public lecture actually understood what he said. Some felt Hawking had endorsed the predictions of astrology and had said it was, in fact, better than String Theory in explaining the universe. Sho
- 14/03/2001
Comic relief

How will the government use the money collected in the name of relief ?
- 14/03/2001
Discovery of India

Anil Agarwal delivers his acceptance speech for the Norman Borlaug Award 2001
- 14/03/2001
Farce of a crisis

This is not a crisis of CNG buses for Delhi but a crisis of governance
- 14/03/2001
Boost for bamboo

the patio at the India Habitat Centre resembled a snazzy, comfortable living space with reclining chairs, low side tables, foot stools, screens, snug utility seats, compact closets, sleek standing
- 27/02/2001
In search of famine

the film title Harvesting Hunger chills one to the bones and the film itself is a despondent tale of the agricultural scenario in the country. "It is apprehended that millions may go hungry in
- 27/02/2001
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  - Soil Science
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  - India
  - Food Security
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Nature s whims and fancies

Early flowering of mango trees, rain constellations going haywire, disappearing nor'westers, shifting seasons all these unusual phenomena can no longer be brushed aside as one time occurrences. These are manifestations of gradual but sure changes in cli
- 27/02/2001
Hotter summers, colder winters

Down To Earth conducted a survey among people throughout the country to assess their perceptions of climate change in their respective regions. Some of the responses received
- 27/02/2001
- - Climate Change
  - Climate
Conditions to aid and trade

World Resources Institute objects to criticism that Northern groups are arm twisting developing countries into reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- 14/02/2001
Time to act

The Madhya Pradesh government has recently sent a letter to the Prime Minister seeking changes in the Forest Conservation Act, 1980. The principal secretary, forests, Madhya Pradesh government, Sudeep Banerjee , spoke to
- 14/02/2001
Spreading root

THEORITICAL and empirical studies of collective management of natural resources have proved the efficacy of common property as an efficient institutional arrangement. In India, joint forest
- 14/02/2001
Self help

Democracy of the people, by the people and for the people . Madhya Pradesh takes the lead
- 14/02/2001