The fly on the wall
No profit motives, no glamour, just dedicated nature lovers with bins at the ready: SNF is a highly politicised organisation
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A city derailed
The Calcutta tramcar system, perhaps the only eco friendly feature in the city's ruined landscape, is heading towards extinction
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Living with the Devil's Element
BBC's film on chlorine is more successful in underlining the vital role it plays in daily life, rather than in detailing why it should be banned
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Not quite the light side
This film, produced by Toxic Comedy Pictures, captures the directors and crew of this independent film travelling to America's vinyl manufacturing capital and beyond in search of answers to troubling
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Bullied and packed
The popular concern for environment among the US public peaked in 1989. The membership and financial assets of a number of prominent national environment advocacy and action organisations, such as
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Failure in France
The US energy plan eulogises France as a safe nuclear success story, without understanding the French failure in managing nuclear waste
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In Court
giving up?: Indonesia and US-based mining giant Newmont Mining Corp have agreed for an out of court settlement of the US $133 million civil suit filed by the country's environment ministry
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Rio+20: Begining of a Global Transformation and new multilateralism
<p class="rtejustify"><em>The significance of Rio + 20 does not lie in any document but in the new direction provided to global governance, whose focus should be on patterns of natural resource use, and
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Recycled rows
The recently concluded third conference on the Basel Convention in Geneva pledge to rid the agreement's ambiguties
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The logistics of conservation
Almost 80 per cent of the elephant range in Africa lies outside protected areas. Human-elephant conflicts are high, particularly in southern and central Africa where both the populations are high
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Born free, but
doomed to extinction all over the world, large carnivores may yet be saved following urgent companies in Asian countries and eksewhere, against using their body parts for medication
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Talking in riddles
A recent protocol on compensation to victims of hazardous waste permits the generators to go scot free
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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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US shipping out spoils of terror
Rubble from World Trade Center arrives in India to a hostile reception by environmentalists
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Time for green gadgets
UNCED has thrown into sharp focus all matters environmental international industry, quick to Catch on to now trends, has started branding its technologies environment friendly and in some cases, started looking for less wasteful ways
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The radioactive trail
BY THE time this editorial is out, the Akatsuki Maru, the Japanese ship due to elbow through 11 tonnes of reprocessed plutonium waste from the French port of Cherbourg to Japan, will probably be
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Modified situations
The Philippines introduces stringent laws for GM products; six European countries in the dock for lax GMO laws
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Atmospheres elsewhere
Scientists are studying atmospheres on other planets in the solar system to learn more about the evolution of climates
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Pressure tactics
The consensus on allowing restricted trade in ivory was confirmed by a secret ballot, and angeredjhe protectionist groups, which had been trying to 4m- twist nations which were in favour of
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A farce on forests
The key interests of both proponents and opponents of the forest convention is control of the timber market. The convention is driven by commercial interests