To whale or not to whale
Nations for and against whaling clash once again, and fail to reach consensus
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Foliage fever
Galvanising support for the unconditional withdrawal of the new Forest Bill, NGOs and a fifth column within the bureaucracy are harrowing the government
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A bracketed meeting in Geneva
The latest meeting to decide upon funding for the ozone protocol ended up with the developed nations foiling the basic demands of the G 77 countries, adding more disputed issues in the square brackets
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A watery affair
The real issues of global water management took a backseat as crisis mongering and anti dam protests hijacked the Second World Water Forum at the Hague
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Experimental protests in the lab
A week of unprecedented protests by the employees of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research indicates the deep discontent among India's scientists
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Nettin' in the bad guys
The Internet is fast becoming a powerful weapon in the hands of voluntary groups for tying up in knots the hitherto omniscient international business shoguns, forcing them to retreat ... because now the world knows of their dirty games
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Here comes the ozone brigade
Indian manufacturers of CFCs are no longer fatalistic about winding up, but they are banding together to overcome ploys that will gag attempts to recoup their investments
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The unsilenced valley
The Bhils of Madhya Pradesh are armed with a simple, effective and practical system of irrigation to mend the ruin inflicted by the state's impractical and rudderless schemes
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A never ending battle
After four years and innumerable trips to courts of justice, Kodaikanal's skyline may not look very different. But for the Palani Hills Conservation Council, it is still too early to give up
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Beyond backwardness
Villagers in Bidar have taken up the cudgels against industrialists and lax state officials responsible for turning this backward district into a dumping ground for toxic waste
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Thailand's sorrow
Swamped by a surge in tourist population, Thailand has but to turn towards alternative tourism
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Arrange again
What water managers know could rejuvenate the law on resolving water related conflicts
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Taking the issue Due North
What Canada wants in the UN from a forest convention is a mystery. Is it pushing a convention to protect its own economic interests in forestry?
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Disappearing act
Overexploitation, increasing salinity and industrial pollution are threatening groundwater resources in several parts of the country
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Killing fields
The Congress wields the butcher's knife, and environment is the casualty
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A tryst winth death
The land of the Brahmaputra recurrently reels under terrible onslaughts of a scourge
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A tinge of green
Issues relating to the environment, though not on top of the agenda, did make their presence felt in the just concluded assembly elections.
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Green salute
Scientists at Maida's polytechnic college are r6versing the trend of rural upliftment through urban basgd planning
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Mekong's miseries
A new regional treaty to usher in dams on the Mekong river has drawn flak from environmental groups
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Hellfires in the hills
Pauri Garwhal became ghost territory as villagers and the forest department virtually ignored unprecedented forest fires