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DTC: OUT OF GAS?

With the deadline for converting its entire bus fleet to compressed natural gas drawing near, the Delhi Transport Corporation looks for excuses and more time to meet its target as it plays into the hands of the diesel lobby
- 30/08/1999
- Down To Earth
The role ahead

They may not seem like much today, but only a fool will undermine the potential of fuel cells
- 30/07/2000
Famines force revival of forgotten crop varieties

The drawbacks of modern, high yield crops are prompting farmers and researchers to go back to traditional, well adapted varieties.
- 30/10/1992
- Down To Earth
- - Agriculture
  - Drought
Rising above the muck

The residents of an unauthorised colony in Delhi battle all odds for a cleaner life
- 30/05/1995
- Grassroots
ublic outcry greets uranium mining project in AP

“There is radiation everywhere on earth. Mining in Nalgonda will not increase it.” This comment of S D Prasad, adviser to public sector undertaking Uranium Corporation of India Limited, typifies the Indian authorities’ disregard for the impact of uranium
- 14/09/2003
- Down To Earth
- - Mining
  - Uranium
  - Health Effects
  - Radiation
  - Electricity
  - Industry
  - Legislation
  - High Court
  - Andhra Pradesh
Turning to God

Godfrey Baseley, the man behind "The Archers", BBC's popular serial on agricultural information, is dead. His 'gossip' was valuable advice to the country's farmers
- 14/10/1997
UP farmers continue protest over land acquisition by Reliance

Following farmers' protests against their displacement for land acquired for special economic zones (sezs), the central government on January 22, 2007, held up approvals for fresh sezs. So far, the
- 14/02/2007
- Down To Earth
Biotech engineered rice has few takers

Despite advancements, research programmes in rice biotechnology heve drawn lukewarm response because it is felt that there is little money to be made from the new varities.
- 14/02/1993
- Down To Earth
The crossover

Fuel cells are more important to a developing country like India than developed countries. But the corporate sector is slow.
- 30/07/2000
Hold tight

Behold: eco development is here, again
- 30/07/2004
- - Ecology
  - Periyar
  - Forest Resources
  - Forest Villages
  - Development
  - National Parks
  - Buxa SA
  - Biodiversity
  - Research
  - NGO
  - India
  - Karnataka
  - West Bengal
  - Tribals
Mundra SEZ spells displacement for fisherfolk

Livelihoods of fisherfolk is at stake as the Mundra special economic zone (sez) on the northern shore of the Gulf of Kutch gets underway. Potentially the largest sez in the country, it covers 28 km
- 30/03/2007
- Down To Earth
- - Land Use
  - Mangroves
  - Ports
  - Gulf Of Kachchh
  - Development
  - Economy
  - Displacement
  - Air Transport
  - Marine Fisherfolk
  - Conflicts
  - Economic Development
  - Industry
  - High Court
  - NGO
  - Gujarat
Dirty detergents

Detergents are rated for how ecofriendly they are
- 29/06/2001
- Down To Earth
- - Environment
  - Carbon Dioxide
  - Industry
  - Technology
  - Research
  - NGO
  - India
  - Delhi
Facing the flood

How prepared is Bihar?
- 30/08/2005
- - Industry
International pressure and the civil society

Linking trade and environment benefits industrialised countries in every way. And they will promote their civil society to create a bigger and bigger fuss about it
- 30/12/1999
The Marlboro people

Indian companies are learning how to fight the civil society from their Western counterparts
- 14/12/1999
- - Health Effects
  - Smoking
  - Industry
  - WHO
  - Anil Agarwal
  - Politics
  - India
Science is a political orphan

This country does not need a Crisis Management Group. It needs a Governance Crisis Management Group
- 27/02/2001
Hammer of Thor

The most retrograde position, believe it or not, has been that of the ministry of environment and forests
- 29/04/2000
Development is not a road

Reportedly, bjp senior leader Arun Jaitley has contemptuously labelled Digvijay Singh s Madhya Pradesh government as ngo style . Why? Because it spends more on social deve lopment education
- 14/12/2003
- - Development
  - Transport
  - Governance
  - Political Parties
  - Panchayats
  - Gram Sabhas
  - NGO
  - India
  - Madhya Pradesh
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
- 14/08/2004
Shanghai-ed

Finance minister P Chidambaram goes to Mumbai to deliberate, with its corporati, upon urban renewal, and promises sparkling growth for this bursting metropolis. On the way to the venue, he is
- 14/06/2005

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DTC: OUT OF GAS?

The role ahead

Famines force revival of forgotten crop varieties

Rising above the muck

ublic outcry greets uranium mining project in AP

Turning to God

UP farmers continue protest over land acquisition by Reliance

Biotech engineered rice has few takers

The crossover

Hold tight

Mundra SEZ spells displacement for fisherfolk

Dirty detergents

Facing the flood

International pressure and the civil society

The Marlboro people

Science is a political orphan

Hammer of Thor

Development is not a road

For frugality and sensible use

Shanghai-ed

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