A year of despair -- and hope
PRODUCING a newspaper or a newsmagazine is something like an unending string of little miracles. As technologists designing new machines well know, "if anything can go wrong, it will." The same
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Removing the audits bogey
THE COVER story of this issue of Down To Earth proves that Indian companies have a considerable potential to reduce wastes and hence, their waste treatment costs. Last year, India became the first
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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
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Conservation crunches
III-conceived nature conservation plans could very well become a bane rather than a boon.for the society
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A tribute to P R Mishra
P R Mishra used the power of the community to transform the barren landscape of Sukhomajri into a model for forest regeneration
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Pastoralists at the crossroads
Hemmed in by intensive agricultural and industrial activity, pastoralists are finding less room to carry on their activities. This could upset the delicate balance of agricultural ecosystems.
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The spear pierceth
Irian Jaya, in Indonesia, is witnessing the descretion of its rainforests by a mining firm; an oft repeated story, one would think, but the implications are no less frightening
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Water of life
The natives of Banni in Gujarat have developed a unique rainwater From highly technique from highly saline ground water
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A mixed bag
The Bangladesh government sends thin plastic bags packing, but has Dhaka seen the last of them? <font class='UCASE'>Pinaki Roy</font> on the ban s efficacy
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Ensuring human survival
"The future of human civilisation could depend on our ability to defend and make sustainable use of biological diversity," he adds. FAO recently published a document on the current threats to the world's biodiversity. Highlights from the report:
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Footprints of the wild
Publishers worldwide need to be goaded to specialise in environmental publications, but the fair was piled high with coffee table glossies on wildlife and environment, some targeting children.
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In a quarry
Goa pays a price for unchecked mining, says a study
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Deep impacts
Global warming has even increased the temperature of the lithosphere
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In defence of shifting agriculture
IT HAS taken almost two decades of consistent research into the northeastern tribal practice of shifting agriculture for P S Ramakrishna, professor of ecology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, to explode the myth that the system is primitiv
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Bioprates in the dragnet
Illegal smuggling of insects from the Himalaya comes into focus with the arrest of two Russians in Sikkim
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Tribals solve problems through self reliance
The Budakattu Krishikara Sangha, with its emphasis on people oriented strategies, has improved tremendously the lot of the tribals in and around Honsur taluka.
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Size does not matter, but the species-specific habitat needs in planning protected areas
Ana S.L. Rodrigues and Mohamed I Bakarr in an exclusive interview with Nitin Sethi
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SIV:On the comeback trail
SIV: On the comeback trail South India Viscose ( siv ) Ltd has a factory on the banks of river Bhavani in Sirumugai village of Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu. siv 's recent history is also the
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Rolling on
Bunga took the sukhomajri story forward The first village to follow Sukhomajri's development model was Bunga, just 30 km away in Haryana's Panchkula district (see timeline: Divergent trajectories).
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Plant prospects
The stubborn juliflora, which grows mostly in drylands and wastelands, is now invading arable areas. One still speculates about the repercussions