Wanderlust goes bust
Settling nomads is tricky business, especially when it comes to garnering votes
Settling nomads is tricky business, especially when it comes to garnering votes
The citizens of Udaipur are increasingly taking on the government to check degradation of the city"s famed lakes
Three years after a public interest litigation case was filed in the Supreme Court to stop a local factory polluting its drinking water, the wells in Bichhri, a hamlet in Udaipur district, continue to be full of contaminated water. Why is public interest
Titanic sank not because it hit the iceberg, the reason for its sinking lies in its inability to take a turn on time'. These words are aptly used by Mahesh Bhat, the noted filmmaker, to describe the
Despite the brouhaha for and against mining in Rajasthan, neither side supports its arguments with scientific evidence. An environmental impact assessment of Bijolia mining district by former Geological Survey of India director M L Jhanwar and N K Mahala
Botanists have finally succeeded in revegetating the Bhatti mine region
Indian lakes are no longer serene waterbodies. Instead, they have become stinking cesspools, a result of continuous inflow of sewage and massive siltation. As the lakes die a premature death, the question that arises is who is responsible for this sorry s
Nanuram Rawat was the adhyaksha of the gram sabha in Seed, one of the first gramdan villages where environmental resources have been regenerated through community management
The World Bank and other agencies funding forestry projects in India are insisting on a more effective forest management strategy
New diseases are emerging with changes in the environment, some old diseases are also staging a comeback
A recent congress highlighted the relevance of people oriented science and technology such as the management of water, forests and agriculture.
Overexploitation, increasing salinity and industrial pollution are threatening groundwater resources in several parts of the country
This monsoon, the Raikas, traditional camel breeders in the Kumbalgarh Wild Life Sanctuary in Rajasthan's Pali district, will face an existential crisis again. It will be the third successive season that the pastoral community will have been banned from grazing their camels in Kumbalgarh.
Geographical Information Systems is revolutionising the present and portend a happier future. Or so we hope in the maps of our minds.
Encroachments by the poor and the rich alike are proving to be the ridge's bane. The malady is monumental, and the court's healing touch has provided incomplete relief at best