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The US and us
(by Sunita Narain)


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green hunt

 

The truth about Operation Green Hunt
NGOs: “Tribals suffer heinous atrocities in the name of ‘Naxal clamp-down’ ”
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  Video:
monsoons
  Why are monsoons difficult to predict?
B N Goswami

WATCH: Part - I
WATCH: Part - II
 
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swine flu
  Swine Flu, pandemic threat
Track the survival tale of Influenza
mean sea level
  Residents of Sunderbans bear the brunt of rising sea levels, unmet Kyoto targets
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  Press release
(Feb. 25, 2009)
A tale of disappearing islands and lost addresses
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Event: Global film premier
Slideshow: Film stills
Factsheet
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JOURNALISM AWARDS
APFEJ Announces 2009
Asia-Pacific Environmental Journalism Awards

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why this magazine
 
 
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Electric Cars
Automatic for the people
Electric cars are not just for the eco-conscious any more. Auto majors showcased their electric and hybrid vehicles at the recent Delhi auto expo. Their future rests on battery development

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feature news
  quacks treat polio in bihar
Quakes, deforestation and USA
80 per cent of Haiti was forested when
Columbus landed in 1492. This January, when US troops landed after the quake, it was less than 2 per cent
Rooftop radiation
60 people formed a forum to battle
random installation of mobile towers
Butter tea has no tea in it

News

A plan for an overhaul at the Botanical
and Zoological Surveys of India...

...and another for the parched Keoladeo
National Park in Rajasthan
Market fad
Diabetes strips are just that
Factories foul Maharashtra villages
Yellow peas: a reality check
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Opinions
Editorial
The US and us
(by Sunita Narain)
Leader
Little understood pillars of our lives
Crosscurrents
How to make eco-tourism eco-friendly
   (by Neelambri Phalkey & Seema    Purushothaman)
Bill to route public fund for pharma     gain
    (by Leena Menghaney)
science
Calcium can fool the taste buds
Efficient osteoporosis drugs on their    way
Mid-day watering can scorch plants
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Review
Legal Grounds Natural Resources Book: Legal Grounds: Natural Resources, Identity, and the Law in Jharkhand
(Edited by Nandini Sundar)
Book: Blood, Iron and Gold 
   (by Christian Wolmar )
Book: Diary on the nesting behaviour    of Indian birds
   (by Chinna Sathan and Bal Pindi)
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Environment For Children
     
  Environment Today
About Bu$iness of Biodiversity
(Feb. 15, 2010)

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leapfrog factor Leapfrog Factor
The continent dodders as the automobile industry
hardsells cars as the key to a lifestyle of wealth and freedom.


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rich lands, poor people Rich Lands, Poor People: Is Sustainable
Mining Possible?
The continent dodders as the automobile industry
hardsells cars as the key to a lifestyle of wealth and freedom.


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What Car?
At the 10th edition of Delhis auto expo, major brands attempt a green image. But what do consumers desire?
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webspecial
  Arsenic poisoning water in Bihar
More hazardous trivalent arsenic found in samples
(By Savvy Soumya Mishra)
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dte radio
  radioRadio
Dodging between playstations and homework, do children need toys or are we buying these out of habit?
A child psychologist, a parent and a toy designer offer inputs
 
Listen
 

 
  Video:
  Making of a toy
On skype with Barry Matthew Kudrowitz, an instructor on toy design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
good toy

  Video:
  What is a good toy? Sudarshan Khanna, former Professor of design at National Institute of Design explains the process of developing a toy, giving examples of his favourite folk toys
good toy

New ambient air quality standards
are out. More cities and towns are now critically polluted. Is your city one of
them? Find out

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says Jairam Ramesh, India’s Union Minister of Forests and Environment to South Asian journalists attending a workshop organized by CSE on the 28th of August in New Delhi.


Watch Shyam Saran, Special Envoy of the Indian Prime Minister on Climate Change brief South Asian journalists and field questions from them

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  Video:
  A bonesetter from Old Delhi explains his popularity: Unlike doctors, he is more accountable to people
 

 
 

 
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  Professor Mike Hulme was the Founding Director of the internationally renowned Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and has served as a Lead Author on the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change in 1996 and 2001.
 
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RTI status: Check out if information is available in your state
Arvind Kejriwal on RTI

Photo feature
Stone crushers
  Making a living from stones. People of Mahoba district in Uttar Pradesh don’t think it’s a fair deal.

Residents in Chennai refuse to sell their garbage to ITC

Pay to park? Pune's residents don't think so...

Bt Brinjals in markets near you
Listen to Bhargava’s       interview

  Locate The Leak
Is 24/7 water for real or just a pipe dream?

  CLIMATE CHANGE: Solutions Await!
NOE21
 
Video:
People from Himachal doubt cement plant
  Harvesting Pearls in Una
Himachal Pradesh wakes up to artificial pearl harvest – a new, environment-friendly business avenue.
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  How Punjabi are you?
punjabi recipesTry these
recipes of yore
to find out
  Hand Foot and Mouth Disease in Thane
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  The Local Solution
Now tribal battalions will be recruited to fight Naxalism in Maharashtra

(By Aparna Pallavi)
  Goa: Losing Beaches, One tar ball at a time
The issue isn’t even a blip on the Government radar yet.

(By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar)
  Slide Show:
Green Pease
  Greenpeace protest against Nestle’s GM stand October 08, 2009
  Video:
R.S Bisht revisits the Harappan site in Dholavira
Locate on an interactive map,
the cause and effect of the drought
  Video:
Getting your house painted?
tristram stuart
Tristram Stuart, the author of Waste: Uncovering a global food scandal,  says the easiest way of saving the planet is not to waste food.
Listen to the interview
See photographs that prove Stuart's claim.
climate alert

Public hearings in Raigarh
Audio: Environment Minister  wants to be strict
Video: But, CSE find gaps in EIA reports
PDF: Stage-managed hearings in raigarh
Engineering Floods
Violent
Panorama of
Kosi floods
Readers Dispatch
Residents angry at a city that has sufficient water but refuses to guarantee equal access
Ammonia leak haunts Bhopal surviver
Vedanta wins
environment award.
Activists up in arms
The award winning tamasha...
Activists block Vedanta from receiving the Golden Peacock
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  Aila @ 110 km/hr
Aila
Images after Aila cyclone, brought back by photographers of Drik India/ MajorityWorld, organizations dedicated to development photography in the South
Unofficial anger: DTE's Alok Gupta reflects on Aila


Satellite images of cyclone
Cogeneration
energy deficit

Can cogeneration bridge the energy deficit?
We snooped around for examples from within and outside India

RTI activists
RTI activists jailed for singing the National Anthem
Cycle of movement
wins in the race
  Watch video to find out who wins in the race to emit more
 
Gimme way
cyclists
  Documented evidence
reveals why cyclists are a
confused, pesky lot
 
Slideshow: Dogged determination to go places has its funny moments on the road
recyclers
   
  Trade secrets
The great Indian recyclers go candid on what it takes to be a true professional
Slideshow
tiger in corbett
Tiger tales
Ravleen Kaur heard many stories tailing the tiger in Corbett

farmers

Watch on youtube
The making of CFL...
Making of CFLs
Demand and trade of CFLs
Small Scale CFL Production
 


   


 
   
 
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