Last warrens
The laying out of a golf course on Japan's Amami-Oshama island - the 2nd one there - may push the Amami black hare, the oldest species of hare in the world, to the brink of extinction.
The laying out of a golf course on Japan's Amami-Oshama island - the 2nd one there - may push the Amami black hare, the oldest species of hare in the world, to the brink of extinction.
A campaign to save the last surviving primary forest in Europe launched last September in Warsaw still continues. Biolowieza Forest, spread over an area of 1,500 sq km and lying in Poland and
The highway being planned in the Ayr-Glasgow corridor in Scotland has run into a "traffic jam". Environmentalists are enraged that the project had been speeded through without completing a thorough
Forest protection in a Midnapore village has created prosperity and local heroes
The rare Jhabua kalamansi disappears from banquets, while the productive Nicobari thaiknet goes unnoticed
Natural disasters wreaking widespread havoc
Do you feel too run down at the end of your workday? Welcome to the sick building syndrome (sbs). Ill-ventilated and badly planned workplaces are causing office-workers physical problems such as
India is all set to gift another ayurvedic preparation to a market that is decidedly turning herbal
The endangered cheer, a pheasant found only in a few pockets in the western Himalaya, has been successfully reared in captivity for the first time in India. Lalit Mohan, a zoologist cum forester in
Alarmed by reports of abandoned flamingo chicks dying due to the severe heat, Gujarat's forest department rushed a team to the Rann of Kutch to conduct an inquiry. Almost 10,000 fledglings are faced
If threats could cure, then Karnataka's capital would be a town-planner's delight, instead of the metropolitan mess that it is. Azim Premji, head of Wipro Corporation, has threatened to pull out the
Soon after stalling construction work in many major projects that had not met environmental norms (see Down To Earth,
Laporia, Jaipur, Rajasthan
Integrating cost effective traditional methods is essential to fighting the killer disease
What will UNCED discuss? Theoretically, everything. But it will focus on: Long-term issues like global warming. National resources in the South like tropical rain forests and conservation of
The South came back reasonably victorious from Rio, it was only because of the poor leadership of USA. The question now is: will it be able to sustain its success?
• Half the world's 6,000 languages will die out in the next 75 to 100 years. • Harvard biologist Edward Wilson estimates that nearly 140 species become extinct very day. • The
Countries like India are increasingly opting for expensive, high tech water treatment systems instead of low cost, low tech water treatment alternatives.
The Centre for Science and Environment recently interviewed a number of environmental experts, industrialists and economists to come up with a list of suggestions for green taxes and financial incentives:
Involving the community in slum improvement has worked successfully in the Philippines and Mexico. Hidebound bureaucrats in the Third World, who insist they know best, should learn a lesson from these experiments.