Everything you want to know about biodiversity, except...
A comprehensive tome on the biodiversity convention is being readied. But will it include all the viewpoints?
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The politics of inefficient irrigation technology
Call it is one of the unknown Indian ironies. Over many years, the Indian state, through its public irrigation agencies, has systematically taken over the management of surface water systems. It has
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Ethics dumped
The world over, the pockets where the poor live are used as environmental dumps. PAUL WAPNER debates the environmental ethics of International politics
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A jungle out there!
Controversy dogged the issue of a forest convention at the meeting of the Commission for Sustainable Development
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Diehard
Toxic pesticides used by developing countries wing their way up to the Arctic region, affecting the Northern climes, and find their way into the human system through water, and some life-forms dependent on it. The situation is so alarming that some enviro
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Still in the Woods
The second Intergovernamental Panel on Forests discussed a lot of issues, yet remained more of a warm up for the final session
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Coal-based "merchant" power plants- A threat to ecology and livelihoods
<div> (From my website <a href="http://eassarma.in">http://eassarma.in</a>)</div> <div> </div> <ol type="1"> <li>While India is seriously engaged in global climate talks, it has simultaneously launched a highly misconceived plan to set up private “merchant” power plants based on coal.
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For a new deal
The role of non-government organisations (NGOs) in the international arena is changing. They have to devise new strategies to consolidate their position
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Breaking the ice
The recent breaking away of a massive iceberg from the Antarctic peninsula has generated a heated debate on the bothers of global warming
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Dying of progress
As the reckless plundering of the world"s limited resources continues, nature is striking back where it hurts humans most: disease. People in some places are still paying the price of other people"s progress. So what makes planners think that they have a
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Countdown to self reliance
Indian space scientists have been forced on the indigenisation track to launch communications satellites
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A new deal
We got off the train at Abu Road station in Rajasthan to visit two cement plants located in the nearby district of Sirohi. The drive was predictable dry stretches interspersed with marginal
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On Eve's of footsteps
The Beijing Conference on Women was a revelation of the 20th Century woman's status vis a vis environment and other issues
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Making hell holes
What slaughter mining and power plants have done to the people and the environment
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The parallels between EU financial crisis and carbon market collapse
<p><em>Extreme caution needs to be taken while mulling of linking different carbon markets</em></p> <p>Ever since the green shoots of carbon markets sprung up in countries outside the European Union (EU),
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Arid politics
Each year the world loses $42.3 billion because of desertification. But when its leaders meet to discuss the fast spreading problem, all they can do is wrangle about funds
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For a terra firma
Earth, the cradle of all lifeforms, should not be transformed into a graveyard for want of serious monitoring of soil degradation all over India and the world
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Corporation for Sustainable Development
Under the Millennium Development Goals MDG of the United Nations UN , it has been agreed to halve the number of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015. The Johannesburg Plan of
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Unexpected relief
Nobody expected farm forestry and exotics to become a major source of firewood
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Devil in deep sea waters
Industrial fishing is fast gobbling up the world's marine resources. Worldwide concern for this humanmade catastrophe has forced nations to draw up a Code of Conduct for Responsible and Sustainable Fishing. But will this non mandatory treaty hold out agai