Looking beyond hype and nostalgia
To most modern Indian writers, the environment means trees, birds and animals and human beings, in aesthetic or metaphysical communion with them.
To most modern Indian writers, the environment means trees, birds and animals and human beings, in aesthetic or metaphysical communion with them.
The tasty meat of a breed of poultry unique to Jhabua is turning out to be the its greatest enemy in the fight for survival
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EVERYONE recognises the importance of forests. We have over the years set up several structures and evolved policies to try and conserve them. How effective these are is, of course, another question.
Even death ceremonies in these 1,200 villages in orissa's Puri district have been transformed
The refrigerant and air conditioning industry in India remains quiet about its moves post 2002 when it stops using chlorofluorocarbons. Is it also making plans to get "compensation" to do nothing? And in this carnival of big business what chances do the
The Bishnoi community in Rajasthan will do anything to protect their environment and nature
To reduce carbon levels in the atmosphere, various countries turn to windmills for a cheap and easy source of energy
In spite of ample evidence highlighting the adverse effects of pesticides on wildlife, it continues to be used indiscriminately in India. Worse, the government has not yet incorporated any of the findings in its policies, nor has it conducted serious rese
Burgeoning population and agricultural encroachment in the last half century have erected artificial walls within the Gond tribes. These ethnic groups, dominating the Bastar district, have little social or economic interchange today
Remnant forests can affect growth of other trees in the vicinity, claims a new study
Industry s role in managing the dwindling freshwater resources of the world was highlighted at the sixth session of the Commission for Sustainable Development at New York. But countries of the South are hesitant about treating a social resource as a
It's been a century of research and implementation of malaria control strategies. But the disease continues to claim three million lives every year
>> The Zambian Parliament has amended the Mines and Minerals Act allowing the government to levy higher taxes on mining companies by abolishing all existing agreements. Mining companies operating
>> Authorities confirmed an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu strain in Suffolk county, the UK, on November 13. An exclusion zone was imposed at the site and about 6,000 poultry were ordered to be
• China refuted a recent US National Academy of Sciences report, which notes that a new strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus has emerged in southern China. • Argentine President Nestor
Intensive prawn monoculture has repeatedly seen epidemics wiping out entire crops, or drastically reducing production. In Taiwan, aquaculture has boomed since 1984 and production reached 100,000
>> The department of justice in Wisconsin, USA, has sued US Oil Company Inc on July 10 for violating state air pollution laws. They alleged its fuel storage terminals in Milwaukee, Brown and Dane
THE PACIFIC island-state of Nauru, once abundant in phosphates deposited by birds, now lies devastated and desolate. Most of the phosphate was mined by Australia and royalties made the Nauruans one
Hair found at ancient sites can reveal the lifestyles of our ancestors