Searching for Roots
India s wealth of flora and fauna provide a rainbow of natural dyes
India s wealth of flora and fauna provide a rainbow of natural dyes
Research efforts on natural colours are not helping the traditional industry
Government agencies acknowledge that Delhi's water is unfit for drinking
While the Indian tourism authorities continue to launch extravagant campaigns to attract visitors, the burden of the increasing numbers of wildlife tourists has goaded the Union ministry of
• The minsitry of environment and forests is all set to issue a notification banning the use of plastic bags for packing items such as meat, fish and cooked food. • Flood waters have
The fragile ecology of the Garhwal Himalaya witnessed another season of cloudbursts, landslides and flash floods made worse by the 1991 earthquake in the Bhagirathi valley. Down To Earth compiled a firsthand report of life in the unstable Himalayan ran
green signal: The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has granted permission to Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited for launching anti-ulcer drug "Ranitidine' in the US. The company is expected to file
The state is struggling to meet the rising water demand. It is time to learn from the days when people arranged their own water. In cities and in villages. A special report by the CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT
The Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) to be commissioned later this year to serve a cluster of 132 tanneries in Pallavaram near Madras will have a unique feature: it will bring 3 neighbouring
A Han dynasty work of art that was sold recently in New York for us $2.5 million may have been stolen from the area to be flooded by the Three Gorges Dam. Elizabeth Childs-Johnson, an archaeologist
Bird deaths in the Okhla Bird Sanctuary raise questions
The Tamil Nadu forest department has come up with a plan to put captured elephants to use
In Maharashtra, the dumping of toxic waste is no less brazen. It is a common practice in Bombay to dispose of industrial sludge along with municipal garbage. Associated Industrial Consultants (AIC),
A major oil spill was averted when an oil barge, Innovative I, which had run aground in the coastal waters off Andhra Pradesh, was finally anchored by the Coast Guard after a week of anxious waiting.
Just below the Kurdemukh mines flows the Bhadra, and on the opposite side of the river is the house of Gulabi. "We once owned that land,' says Gulabi pointing towards the mined area, little realising
Pikes are great swimmers. Scientists are trying to find out how they do it
Laws need to be strengthened and implemented properly to protect the environment
Privatisation of tea and rubber plantations has endangered the flora and fauna in southern Sri Lanka
"Forgive us, Aral. Please come back." These words written in chalk, on a ship sftKk in a sandy wasteland, which was once the bustling shore of the world"s fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea, tell a graphic tale of the human toll caused by am of the w
After being displaced from their natural habitat, bats are taking refuge in abandoned mines, buildings and houses