Time we counted real change
Corruption, we know, takes myriad forms in India. The Bharatiya Janata Party bjp , the country s main opposition party, believes that it s epitomised in railway minister Laloo Prasad Yadav, and
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Environmental music
ENVIRONMENTAL issues seem to be fetching considerable mileage for television programmers who flood us from abroad. Even Baywatch last week featured an environmental issue: when one of the shapely
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What is Aam Aadmi Party’s new deal on transport?
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South flays North's 'green GATT' proposal
At a recent meeting, Northern environmentalists insisted on GATT taking a tougher stand on environmental issues. The South, however, maintained this would not solve the problem.
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The world isn't just Big Macs and Coke
How many people can the earth sustain? While the world feverishly computes the answer, it must not forget that sustainability is not just feeding people; love and solidarity also play a prominent role.
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Barmer farmers protest Jindal power project
People in Kapurdi hamlet, some 30 km from Rajasthan's Barmer town, are unusually suspicious of strangers. They stop and question every outsider driving through the area. What is making them so wary
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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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More hard facts and much less syrup, please
A look at two documentaries on local resistance to the Suvarnarekha dam project in Bihar and the Sardar Sarovar dam that dwell too much on the picturesque and not enough on the reality.
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A handful of aces for the North
Global environmental concerns throw open the South to Northern intervention, whereas the South has limited interest in intervening in Northern affairs. After Rio, the South finds all the cards stacked against it.
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Search for the lesser evil
A Down To Earth survey of the civil society shows that when it comes to the environment, no political party in India has anything substantive to offer. But the Indian National Congress emerges as less objectionable than the Bharatiya Janata Party
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A road to nowhere
The government must undertake a serious study of human nature interaction before declaring any area a national park
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The last of the humble farmer
In any democratic country, environmental concerns can get integrated with developmental programmes only if the leader is sensitive to them
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Hear, hear!
The industry begrudges being left in the dark about the Cabinet s decision to form an environment appellate authority competent to tackle complaints and hearings on developmental projects
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The dam sham
Even as protests against the Bakun Dam Project grow more strident, the Malaysian government remains adamant on its decision to go ahead with it
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A tool to aid democracy lies rusting
That concerned citizens have the right to approach the courts on matters of social justice and that India's constitution, by implication, guarantees ecological justice are indeed ideas that have done
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The muck stops here
Indian lakes are no longer serene waterbodies. Instead, they have become stinking cesspools, a result of continuous inflow of sewage and massive siltation. As the lakes die a premature death, the question that arises is who is responsible for this sorry s
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Rice goes against the grain
An Asian staple for over a millennium, rice has become important enough for the North to start raiding and patenting strains
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Wielding the green whip
Mexico can't sell its "dolphin unfriendly" tuna to USA. Japan faces punishment for exporting jewellery made of hawksbill sea turtle shell. Malaysia is penalised for exporting rainforest wood. All over the world, green trade wars are raging. But trade ban
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South gains words but loses its genes
While the North has made no commitment to reduce its emissions,, the South commits itself to protect the world's biodiversity
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High anxiety
Heated exchanges marked a conference which ended abruptly to hastily patch up a lukewarm agreement