Climate crime revisited
UK's consumption-based emissions analysis challenges conventional wisdom Carbon emissions of a country have been calculated on the basis of production of goods and services, until now.
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We don't smell the air
I smelled the air of Bangalore last week. It was foul. I remembered how in the late 1990s, when Delhi s air was dark and dirty, we had run an advertisement in the newspapers Roll down the window of
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Musical critiques US corporations
The cultish power of big corporations has found expression in films, even angry documentaries. It's theatre now. But Walmartopia, a musical satire travelling to towns in the us, is meant for an
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Post Katrina, arsenic contamination haunts New Orleans
Even after two years, hurricane Katrina still haunts people in us's port city New Orleans in Louisiana state. Floods that came in the wake of the hurricane have left the soil in the city's schools
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Citizens' reports indict Gujarat government for Surat floods
The floods of August 2006 are among the worst Gujarat's Surat city has experienced in recent times. The sudden release of a huge amount of water from the Ukai dam led to over 80 per cent of Surat
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Goa village wins compensation for fields scarred by mining
landmark is a much abused word when it comes to legal copy. But the Bombay High Court's recent order that six mining companies would have to compensate farmers in north Goa for rendering their
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Irrigation can't stave off global warming
conventional scientific wisdom has it that irrigation works against global warming. But there is evidence now to shake us out of complacency. Scientists from the University of California, Merced,
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E waste posing health risks for workers in scrapyards
Computers are not designed for recycling. It's not surprising, therefore, that in Europe and the us, a computer is thrown away every two years. And there are thousands of other electronic gadgets.
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Global warming can't be fixed without egalitarian ethic
It is difficult to find simple remedies to complex problems, not because such remedies are hard to find but because they are often overlooked. To check global warming, German chancellor Angela Merkel
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Darfur displaced demand justice
Victims of the Darfur genocide in Sudan, alongwith a few action groups and legal experts, recently demanded that environmental crimes committed during the mass killings also be accounted for and the
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Post floods, Orissa's tribal districts suffer cholera outbreak
A cholera outbreak has ravaged Orissa's tribal-dominated Kalahandi, Koraput and Rayagada districts since early August. The state government says the region has reported 119 deaths so far. About
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NREGA racket Chhattisgarh suspends officials
a mutli-crore scam in the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega) recently came to light in Chhattisgarh's Naxal-affected Kanker district. The state government has
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As the waters rise
Two summits on global warming lay bare a yawning gap over who needs to do what, as well as the ghost of a deal