Coast is unclear
<I>The official hostility to the most important instrument for safeguarding India's coastal ecology may prove disastrous</I>
<I>The official hostility to the most important instrument for safeguarding India's coastal ecology may prove disastrous</I>
Most Indians are defenceless against the fine toxic particles in the air largely products of vehicular emissions and scientists are finding newer and deadlier things about pollution. Surprisingly, this is not confined to metropolitan cities. Evidence
GUJJARS are up in arms because they resent being thrown out of their homes by the proposed Rajaji National Park in Uttar Pradesh. In coastal Orissa, Chilika fisherfolk are protesting the allocation
Of all dyes produced across the world, 11 per cent goes out as effluents. 2 per cent from manufacturing and as much as 9 per cent from colouring. Each year, India produces 64,000 tonnes of dyes, 7,040 tonnes of which are directly discharged into the envir
While western investors are lining their pockets with Papua New Guinea's rich natural resources, all the government is getting in return is a degraded environment.
Sweden may be trying hard to control the phenomenon of acid rain, but the end result is another crisis at hand a dwindling Population of the moose
Delhi was once green, cool and never water
COMPU RECORDS: The staff at River Hills West Healthcare Center in Pewaukee, Wis.,in the US are done forever with the tiresome patient logbook, where they maintained the minutest details of the
Environmental degradation would undermine China s food security in the coming 30 years
Can merely conserving trees save the environment?
Diseases that were cheerfully believed to have been eradicated are inexplicably cropping up again in India in deadlier, drug resistant forms
TILL the other day, the Rajasthan chief minister, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, seemed to spend much of his time frozen on an anti-environmentalist platform, ranting against the Union ministry of
The issue of toilet space for 8.1 million slumdwellers in India's 4 major metros threatens to expand into a matter of social rights
Gouditikra in Orissa provides a model of how community participation can transform a village
IN THE past century, humans have polluted the oceans, poisoned rivers and lakes, made deserts of good, arable land, felled forests, and severely eroded the mountainsides. This book seeks to protect
As the Gujarat forest department persists in planting a weed that sucks dry all the water in its vicinity, the Little Rann of Kutch gets...
A clash of opinions has put paid to all hopes of a consensus on the empowerment of people living in and around national parks and sanctuaries
I happened to attend, recently, a jan sunwai peoples court on water, convened by the National Federation of Indian Women. Women came from over 15 states to report on the state of their water.
Sukhomajr, a village in Haryana, has come to symbolise how community efforts at natural regeneration can improve both the forests and the people's standard of living.
Mismanaging water can create a crisis and lead to panic. This is exactly what led to a water riot near Jamnagar in Gujarat