To sell a resource
Water. A resource whose scarcity and inefficient allocation gives enough cause for concern. A concern which could find a solution in the concept of market-based allocation and tradeable water rights
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Green is the colour of money
While the 21st century promises to herald the advent of the era of ecological reality, a sustained emphasis on resource efficiency stands out as the need of the hour
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The last frontier
The Earth's overexploited seas are in danger of turning into the Last Frontier. In giant, demonic trawls, the World's oceans are being systematically emptied of their marine life from dumb tuna to pixie like, intelligent dolphins. The unsustainable fi
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What a bloody mess
When the Ebola virus broke on April 10 this year, the scientific world went into a tizzy? It's uncontrollable, it's the big daddy of horror movies, and it's incurable. Authors look at the little killer from a safe distance
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The parching of India's Venice
Kerala finds its rivers drying up and beginning to die
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The pitfalls of protection
To save their forests from degradation, villagers will have to deal tactfully with the host of conflicts that sprout out of the field of good intentions
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Saving to survive
Impending doom has prompted villagers in Bihar and Orissa to protect their forests from natural calamities. And humans
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On the move
Duck rearing in India has come a long way. From a small time activity, it has evolved to one in which entire flocks are transported across states to freshly harvested paddy fields. This is symbiosis at its most benevolent. The ducks pay the fields bac
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Artisans the untold story
Despair and devastation stare India"s artisans in their face, as resource crunch, modern civilisation and government apathy combine in an onslaught on their teetering citadels. Down To Earth presents an exhaustive analysis
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Traditional knowledge: Let the people decide
With the help of the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, a premier scientific research organisation, the Patriotic and People-Oriented Science and Technology Foundation (PPST), a science-based
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The paris climate: A new global vision, challenges of the urban transition remain and negotiations continue
<p><img alt="" src="http://indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/msanwal_blog.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 117px; float: left; margin: 14px;" /></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><em>Mukul
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Cauvery Calamity
Promotion of water guzzling crops like rice is leading to maximum utilisation of river waters in India. The Cauvery dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu is probably the first of such problems that lie ahead
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The world in his pocket
Kamal Nath is one of the few Indian ministers to have acquired an international image. He has traversed the globe to attend various environmental conferences and has also played host to several of his foreign counterparts. Nath argues the new found green
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Educating the underprivileged
A review of our educational and training policy is desperately needed to educate tribals, the backward classes and the poor
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Indifferent villagers, guards doom Project Tiger
Indiscriminate poaching, abetted by government apathy and sympathy from villagers displaced from their traditional forest habitats, is fast wiping out India's tiger population.
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Air Pollution during Delhi Winters - How Bad is it?
<p>For multiple reasons, the winters are the worst in Delhi, India - harsh winters, limited air movement, and restraining meteorological conditions worsen the already <a href="http://urbanemissions.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-delhi-tied-for-worlds-worst-air.html">topped out air pollution </a>problem.
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Leading the way to brain damage
India has yet to tackle the problem of leaded petrol, which causes brain damage in children
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Polluting unit in Rajasthan gets clean chit
Activists are fighting the Rajasthan Board for Prevention and Control of Pollution's sudden decision to clear the Pesticides India Ltd factory at Udaipur hint the reason behind the reversal is political
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The politics of Pollution
Nepal's carpet industry is being castigated for being the primary polluter of the Kathmandu valley
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MONEYMAKERS
ANTI-POLUTION GIZMO: Diesel engines will be spewing less nitric oxide fumes, promise KMH, a Doncaster-based business house, and Leeds University in the UK. They have jointly developed a steam-based