Paying for environmental abuse
Warer cess assessment and collection have proved to be inadequate in getting local bodies and highly industrialised states like Maharashtra to pay their dues.
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BILT Ballarpur
Two Leaves Company<br>SCORE 33.44%<br>RANK THREE
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Save lakes from the sins of humanity
THERE is something very beautiful about lakes -- not just aesthetically, but also intellectually. Lakes do not just mirror their environment. They also mirror the society around them. Clean water
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The I0C experience
INDIAN Oil Corporation (IOC), a leading petroleum refining and marketing company, is a "low-profile, high-performance company" with a proactive approach to environment manage- ment. All its
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India’s first-ever environmental rating of coal-based power plants finds the sector’s performance to be way below global benchmarks
New Delhi, February 21, 2015: Indian coal-based thermal power plants are some of the most inefficient in the world -- says a two-year long research study by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). The
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Did ecological impropriety lead to the end?
Historians generally agree that the death of the Indus Valley civilisation did not occur because of a single dramatic event, but came about due to several factors. One probability is that the people of that age mismanaged natural resources
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Oceans despair
1998. The International Year of the Ocean. But the news from the deep is not good
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A case of myopia?
For manufacturers of ozone destorying substances in the South its time to make a tough call. The protocol brings the bigwigs of the North-based chemical industry to their doorstep. Will they fight by leapfrogging to the best alternatives and beat the comp
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Shortchanging the South
Funds, always a sticky subject, was an area of considerable debate at UNCED. What emerged was a weak compromise which left northern purses relatively untapped
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Browns turned to greens
Botanists have finally succeeded in revegetating the Bhatti mine region
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Beauty and biology: the Shangri-La
Sikkim, a place of great natural beauty, has been neglected by botanists and zoologists. While there is apprehension that many species have already become extinct or endangered, little is being done to conserve its biodiversity
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Fostering change
The socioeconomic scenario of Panch Mahals in Gujarat has improved due to the active participation of tribal women in a forestry programme
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Controls off for diesel generators
Key environmental clause deleted from rules governing diesel generator sets barely six months after implementation
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Germany in transition
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Paper chase
PAPER is important, but so are forests. The proposal of the ministry for environment and forests to allow the paper industry to establish captive plantations on degraded forest lands, has provoked angry reactions from environmentalists. Many academics a
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Mission impossible?
Managing the conflict
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The spirit of the sanctuary
<I>FIVE YEARS ago, the social forestry department in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra cleared several trees from a forest near Nandivse village to plant acacia trees. It did not know that the 4-ha patch was a sacred grove surrounding the temple of a powerful local deity, Kal Bhairon. The villagers, too, joined in because they were paid for the felling and planting.
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Plagueing policies
Since rats cannot be totally exterminated, keeping a watch on wild and domestic rodernt plays a critical role in plague control, and this can be easily done by making rodent watch a part of the regular studies of zoology students in
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Mutual interest
Farmers care for the hill slopes only when the hills provide livelihood a simple lesson that has been forgotten
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INTERVIEW: PAWAN KUMAR CHAMLING
"NGOs have the most important role to play"