Marine feuds are festering sores in Kerala
Kerala's coast has become a battleground between traditional and mechanised fishing communities, jeopardising the marine ecosystem.
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The US-Chinese joint statement: No change given
<p>Late yesterday, US president, Barack Obama and the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, issued a joint statement on climate change. The statement was much awaited. It was believed that President Obama on his maiden visit to the region would get the Chinese to change their position on climate change.
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Tribals sow, MNCs reap
EIGHTY per cent of the world's population depends on indigenous knowledge to meet their medicinal needs, and at least half rely on indigenous knowledge and crops for food supplies, according to a
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Green is the colour of money
While the 21st century promises to herald the advent of the era of ecological reality, a sustained emphasis on resource efficiency stands out as the need of the hour
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Obese exposure
Detecting the body's fat deposits
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More on the Copenhagen Accord: US vs India (part 1)
<p>Three negotiation related documents that I have been sitting on, which need to be put on public record, are:</p>
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Koel Karo battles on
Tribals have been fighting the Koel Karo dams for the last 20 years the longest struggle against a project. Now, a fresh budget fuels the controversy further
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A clean dig
Experts from all over India and the world vote for cleaner mining options in the first ever world mining Congress
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DENMARK
People collect rainwater without any support from the government. This saves the avoidable overuse of drinking water
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'I will not say Delhi is an environmental disaster'
Delhi is bursting at the seams from the pressures of rampant urbanisation. Everything that can possibly go wrong in this metro of 10 million people seems to have already gone wrong. The water, land and air everything seems to have been fouled up, the re
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Power crunch in paradise
Port Blair, port city of the Andamans, is in a developmental cul de sac
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Blood on its hands
Industry in Asia's largest chemical unit zone is like a terrorist outfit, devastating the atmosphere and, reportedly, killing people
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City of thirst
Madras is a chronically water-starved metropolis, and it provides invaluable insights into how integrated water management could be the last life-saver
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Ruminant ramifications
Beef, the staple food of the British, finds itself out of favour as a ban on its sale sweeps across UK and also the European Union
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Time to bid adieu
April 23 marked the end of the 300-year-old coal mining industry in France. On that day, the last symbolic block of coal was extracted from the La Houve mine near the town of Creutzwald, abutting the
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Purifying the Ganga
"The story of the Ganges, from her source to the sea, from old times to new, is the story of India"s civilisation ..." - Jawaharlal Nehru
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For frugality and sensible use
A recent letter from a reader has disturbed me enormously. B P Radhakrishna, president of the Geological Society of India, in response to a story in Down To Earth about how drought was affecting
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Mission impossible?
The sheer scope of the biodiversity action plan may militate against its successful implementation
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Mission impossible
The <font class="UCASE">uk </font> government has a tough choice. In the next decade-and-a half decade, almost all of the country's 14 nuclear stations will have outlived their utility. Not a very welcome proposition in a country where nuclear power generates about 22 per cent of the electricity, annually. Moreover, the share of renewables in <font class="UCASE">uk'</font> s energy supply has not grown desirably, while demand for energy is on the rise.
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Helping women irks men in Haryana district
A non govemmental organisation attempting to help women in Haryana's and Rewari district is hampered by caste factors and male chauvinism.