Subterranean subterfuge
Thousands of industrial units in parts of Haryana are clandestinely discarding untreated effluents into aquifers, irreversibly damaging groundwater.
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A R Maslekar
ANIL AGARWAL has raised many important points regarding the status of India's forests with reference to the SFR 1995 by the PSI and the FAO's assessment for 1980 and 1990. The paper commends
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Sowing less, reaping bare
Yet another controversial move by our environment and forests ministry could ring the death knell for India's biodiversity
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Sethusamudram ship canal project
<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Sethusamudram ship canal project</strong></span></p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/country/srilanka/sethusamudaram_hl.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid;" /></p> <p><span class="bodytext">Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project started by the government of India has many adverse effects on Sri Lanka . It is already proved that both India and Sri Lanka will undergo massive environmental damage as a direct result of this project. </span></p>
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Empower civil society
Fiscal incentives for the middle class would help mobilise Indian money for NGOs. They would not have to depend on foreign funds
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From reservations to recognition
Pushed onto reservations and almost forgotten, the indigenous people of the world have finally got onto the international environmental agenda. The UNCED process has at least recognised that the concerns of the First People must be addressed
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The see saw approach
The Central Public Works Department has banned the use of wood in its construction projects, ignoring the fact that the substitutes are more ecologically harmful and mainly depend on non renewable sources of raw materials
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Sustainability and the southern perspective
European environmentalists tackle Third World concerns of irresponsible overconsumption by northern countries
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Promoting integrated village planning
Self sustaining rural communities could be India's answer to her disrupted ecosystem.
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Hospital waste: management morass
Every day, the country's numerous hospitals and medical facilities churn out millions of tonnes of waste. An alarming percentage of this waste lies in the open, like festering sores on civilisation's body, as breeding grounds of lethal virulences and
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Lost in the deep woods
IT'S a bit less than a conspiracy, a bit more than a fetish. Five international organisations have made forest conservation their overriding priority. The gigantic United Nations bureaucracy based in
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Giving villagers a slice of the pie
A programme in Zimbabwe strives to conserve wildlife and maintain development on the premise that villagers will utilise natural resources in a sustainable manner if they can perceive the benefits to them
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Cloudy days for solar cooker
Subsidy amounts and sales figures may not always be indicators of commercial success. After a decade old promotion campaign, only a few Indians own solar cookers and fewer still use them. Is the design, which is incompatible to Indian conditions, t
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Money plants?
How green is your money? Investors try to figure out as plantation companies take them for a ride
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Black heart
The atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are increasing and a rise in global temperatures seems imminent
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No truck with green
WE HAVE a perspectivebut nopolicieson environmentdeclares Sitarain Yechury, the suave Communist Party of India-Marxist (cpi-m) politburo member. Green causes, till now, have lain low on the
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No bullying
Scientists slam new US conditions on nuclear deal
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The pollution commons
#1 Who is the polluter? What is their waste-typology? This is the first critical and often make-or-break step. Get the property rights regime wrong and it is clear that nothing will work, is the
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That sinking feeling
PLANET Earth would have been an utterly lifeless blob of space debris if it hadn"t been for the water that covers 70 per cent of its surface. But for reasons that have to do with both corporate human greed and amazing myopia, the vanguard of "modern" civi
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UNDERGROUND FACTOR
North eastern NGOs are caught in the crossfire between militants and intelligence agencies