He was the archetypical activist bureaucrat. For A N YELLAPPA REDDY, former special secretary to the government of Karnataka's department of environment and ecology, the issues were real and live. He would not let avaricious politicians and big busine
How governments are dealing with GM
Priorities, post WSSD
People in Andhra Pradesh now need official consent to sink new wells
an asteroid that splashed into the Southern Ocean about 1,500 km southwest off the Chilean coast two million years ago has solved several mysteries of nature: why the fossils of land and sea
A California state jury has directed the owner of a tanker that spilled 76.4 million litres of oil in 1990 near two popular beaches in the US state to pay US $18 million for damages caused by the
The proposed hazardous waste management project again" brings to light the Indian government's tendency to prevent free flow of crucial data regarding any industrial project, especially those funded by external agencies
The city of Delhi needs a doctor to rid it of the demon of pollution. Unfortunately some doctors say pollution is not a problem
Comparison of compensation in the US and in India
T he animal in us may just be a rat. A team of researchers from the National Human Gen ome Research Insti tute (nhgri) and other universities in the us has found the human gene code to be more
Ideology rules the roost in USA
Hollagaru farmers reap rich dividends by going organic
An integrated coastal zone management plan to strengthen the existing coastal zone legislations under the EPA (Environment Protection Act, 1986) is on the anvil. The Department of Ocean Development
At a time when plantation companies are under pressure for financial irregularities, they are also facing severe criticism from the ministry of environment and forests which has castigated them for
The World Bank (WB) in its 50-year history has supported more than 6,600 development projects worth US $337 in about 140 countries. These projects have supported sectoral growth in various
<p><strong>The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet in Pakistan, decided to lift the over two decades long ban on forest harvesting besides managing forests along scientific lines in line with a working plan made by the government. Read more in November 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan</strong></p>
ozone remains one of the most perplexing air pollutants posing critical threat to human health. While stratospheric ozone 10 to 50 km above the earth's surface keeps declining, aggravating the
Their ecosystem is under threat but no one seems to care
the Hanumantha Rao Committee report, looking into the safety, environmental and rehabilitation aspects of the controversial Tehri Dam project, will be made public after it is presented to Prime
Southeast Asia seems to have a permanent rendezvous with disasters. First it was the haze in Indonesia and now it is the oil spill in Singapore. About 25,000 tonnes of fuel oil spilled into the
