CETPs: in fashion
Pollution from small-scale industries has grown by leaps and bounds. So, building common effluent treatment plants (cetps) has become a fashion. The Union ministry of environment and forests (mef)
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Noisy tussle
Fresh notification for DG set makers soon
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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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Living energy
Bioresources, the energy and raw materials derived from plants and animals, could help end poverty.
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Anguish!
A shaman delves into the glorious past and predicts a deathly future
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"Power" to the people irks Bengal villagers
Villagers near Calcutta contend they have been unfairly done out of their land by a private thermal power plant project
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Nature s laboratory
The ice cover almost 4.8 km thick is perhaps the most valuable feature of Antarctica, with its record of past atmospheres in the trapped air bubbles
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For the people...
Conservation policies practised in the developing world need to tread cautiously on territories which had for generations, belonged to the people, says a statement by the Centre for Science and Environment
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Rehabilitating land
Innovative technology and consolidation ofscattered land holdings has made agriculture profitable in UP
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Malaria and the wrath of God
A WELL-KNOWN quasi-ecumenical argument against the existence of God is the existence of the mosquito: apart from being frustratingly acrobatic and musically demented, the little bugger serves no
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Drowning In Human Excreta
Sanitation for urban India means building flush toilets and linking them to sewer systems. But the price of chasing this dream is leading to an environmental catastrophe. MANOJ NADKARNI analyses our flush and forget mindset
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India's changing position on climate change: why and for whom?
<p>Let me be straight: As the clocks ticks to Copenhagen, how low is the world prepared to prostrate to get climate-renegade US on board? Is a bad deal in Copenhagen better than no deal? <br />
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The contours of repression
The government has consistently steamrolled opposition to the Sardar Sarovar project
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Neither rosy nor green
IT is beyond dispute that the pattern of economic development has substantially altered the relationship between humans and nature. But never has the underlying sociological, political and
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Here are 18 steps for successful translocation
- Study the number of groups of monkeys present in the area. - Study where these groups sleep at night and their favourite feeding areas. - Locate a forest with good number of wild fruiting
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The link with a hole
At a time when river networking is being touted as a panacea for the entire country’s water woes, the tide of opinion in Karnataka is turning against the concept. The dissent is moored to a proposed local scheme to divert Nethravathi river
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Unexpected relief
Nobody expected farm forestry and exotics to become a major source of firewood
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Action against polluting units gives Goa villagers some relief
POLLUTING industrial units in Cuncolim Industrial Estate, located about 10 km from Madgaon town in Goa, are beginning to feel the heat. On September 11, 2006, the Goa State Pollution Control Board
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Oasis underneath
Local people in the arid Churu district of Rajasthan know how to store sweet rainwater for the scorching, parched summers
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A Pest Of A Problem
Cross border trade in hazardous chemicals and pesticides threatens the ecology with dire consequences. Sixty one nations get together to ward off the threat. This is important for developing countries as they lack the resources to manage these lethal comp