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Indian Rooftop Solar Rearing to go

Grid-connected solar power is growing fast in India, going from just a few megawatt (MW) in 2009 to over 1000 MW by mid-2012. 1000 MW of solar power can supply over 20 lakh Indians with electricity.
- - Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the southern perspective

European environmentalists tackle Third World concerns of irresponsible overconsumption by northern countries
- 14/07/1995
Changing need in cattle feed

Scientific fodder comes of age in today"s era of specialisation and optimum use
- 14/07/1995
Death of the Indus delta

It was from the port towns of this region that Arab dhows laden with merchandise set sail for distant towns in the days of yore. Today, these towns lie deserted -- an eloquent comment on the ecological devastation that has visited the Indus del
- 29/06/1992
- - Ecology
  - Forests
  - Indus
  - Mangroves
  - India
An agenda of incoherence

The grossly inadequate education as imparted in our schools has to answer for our general insensitivity towards the environment
- 30/01/1996
My Copenhagen diary: How polluters won and we all lost

Monday, December 14, 2009: Standing in line in the freezing cold, waiting to be registered to the conference of parties to the climate change convention being held in Copenhagen, I have strange sense of foreboding that this will be an eventful but disappointing week.
- 30/12/2009
- - Climate Change
 - Climate Agreements
Born dead

In the story from the great Indian epic, Mahabharat , the legendary hero Arjun was once telling his wife Shubhadra how to penetrate the virtually unassailable ancient battle formation, Chakravyuha , destroy it and get out unscat
- 30/08/1996
Dead fish tell tales...

...as the case of Betwa proves. Tales which have the power to move a whole town in Madhya Pradesh and send the notoriously slothful official machinery into a whirligig of activity. It is all about a people’s struggle to save the highly polluted Betwa rive
- 30/01/1997
The global green farce

At UNCED the inclustrialised countries do not want any serloys restructuring of their economies or their lifestyles to save the earth. But the Brazil conference will see a major effort to got developing countries to share the burden of change. Des
- 30/05/1992
A cocktail of chemicals

...that"s what New Bombay residents seem to be consuming daily, with thousands of chemical industries and lakhs of vehicles burping out pollutants and snuffing out a dream
- 27/02/1995