It is becoming possible to utilise the capacities that exist outside the state such as non governmental organisations to influence state policies and, in the coming years, India is going to witness dissatisfaction being increasingly expressed throug
Controversy has dogged the Konkan railway project since its inception. Today, many influential Goans are up in arms against the present alignment of the track, which, they allege, would wreck the state"s environment. Railway officials, of course, disagree
Demand management is better for both the environment and the economy. The sooner South Korea realises this, the easier it would be for the nation to get out of the IMF shackles unhurt
Industry s role in managing the dwindling freshwater resources of the world was highlighted at the sixth session of the Commission for Sustainable Development at New York. But countries of the South are hesitant about treating a social resource as a
NATO strikes on chemical plants and refineries around Belgrade could lead to an ecological disaster, warn Serb officials
• The temple complex at Shirdi in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district, dedicated to the 19th century saint Sai Baba, now has one of the world's largest solar cooking systems •The solar rays are used to heat water and generate steam that is directed through pipes into steam cookers used for cooking rice, dal
AN AQUATIC army of American origin has invaded the Black Sea and is wreaking havoc on the fisheries there. Small jellyfish-like, tentacled creatures called ctenophores arrived there in 1982, hiding
A fight over pickerel catch in Ontario turned into a bitter wrangle when the US started stretching every trade rule in the book
Recent studies say deforestation figures in west Africa have been exaggerated by Northern agencies
Burying of waste by the mining industry can severely damage plant and animal life
muynak, a small town lying about 1,000 km west of the Uzbek capital Tashkent, bears testimony to one of the worst ecological disasters in the world - the shrinking of the Aral Sea. Once a green,
the Reds seem to be going green as environmental consciousness descends upon them in a big way. Prime Minister Li Peng, at an environmental protection conference held in mid-July in Beijing, said
local environmental groups in South Korea have demanded an end to a large-scale reclamation project now underway on the southwestern coast of the nation. "The project should be scrapped
US rivers and lakes are poisoned by PCBs
In east Africa the latest war casualties are gorillas
scientists at the University of California at Berkeley, usa, have developed a new method of monitoring animal range sizes and distribution. The study, published online in PLoS One, analyses data
Age old tribal and indigenous know how could be lost to marauding urbanisation
Trade unionist Datta Samant has helped 2,500 families of quarry workers in Bombay to get their settlement recognised as a slum. The 35-acre plot amid sand quarries at Powai lake was notified as a
The mining of manganese ore by the government-owned Mysore Minerals Ltd and a private Goa-based mining company has "resulted in massive degradation" in the Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka, says
The Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL), a 51 per cent subsidiary of Unilever, has been asked to pay a fine of Rs 50 crore for polluting Kodaikanal. The Supreme Court Monitoring Committee on Hazardous
