A quiet Revolution
Six years ago, the Andhra Pradesh government decided to manage forests jointly with the people. This effort is breaking new ground in Naxalite-…
Uneasy truce
Stand-off ends between forest officials and villagers in Ranthambhore, but roots of the conflict remain
Darfur pays for its water
In 2006, Slovenian president Janez Drnov?ek sent filmmaker and political activist Tomo Kriznar as a peace envoy to war-torn Darfur. US pressure …
One Track Mind
The Union government's ineptness in dealing with technology finds a new victim: Delhi's metro rail project
Politics of water resource management in India
Book>> The Politics of Water Resource Management in India by John R Wood Sage Publications 2007 pages 285 Rs 625
"Mahua memoirs", a documentary
DOCUMENTARY>> MAHUA MEMOIRS directed by Vinod Raja produced in collaboration with Equations and HIVOS regional office
Tawang: Paradise threatened by Mega Dams
On May 2, 2016, police fired at a group of protestors in Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang District. Two people were killed and 19 others were injured. …
Sweet cruelty
Sugar plantations were run by African slaves who were tortured, but they also revolted against their masters
Dam in check
In an atmosphere of deepening mistrust on the India-Nepal border, Bihar farmers find it difficult to build check dam
Poor India speaks
book>> Caterpillar and the Mahua Flower, Tremors in India's Mining Fields edited by Rakesh Kalshian Panos South Asia New Delhi 2007
World Wildlife Day: India’s conflict with elephants
Elephants stand at the focal point on the occasion of World Wildlife Day. In India, human-elephant conflict is increasing due to shrinking habitats
An ecological triumph goes sour
Kerala celebrates silver jubilee of the Silent Valley project, but dismisses conservation measures
Caught in crossfire
Chhattisgarh government withdraws support to people who took shelter in Salwa Judum camps
A bridge divides them
Highway authority runs into 30,000 people facing displacement
Bone of contention
Neither Project Tiger nor the eco-development project can end the conflicts between the forest officials and the villagers in Ranthambhore
'Privatisation has increased rural neglect'
The northeast has been badly affected by ethnic strife. DILIP GOGOI of Cotton College, Guwahati, on its vulnerabilit
Erasing the dots
Even as Goa's politicians and the mining mafia employ multiple strategies to denotify two sensitive wildlife sanctuaries in the state's Western …
Two for tangle
Development takes backseat in Northeast as two Central agencies try to outcompete each other
What led to forest officer’s killing
In Andhra Pradesh, revenue department gives land to poor, forest department wants it back
Conflicts are bad for the environment, says UNEP report
At a time when the threat of war looms large over Iraq, here's more ammunition for peaceniks to confront warmongers with. The United Nations …
Refugees in their own home
In Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuary, thousands of hectares of land leased to private contractors is threatening wildlife in the region
Banking Ordinance a bold step but silent on considering environmental and social risk management to reduce NPA: CSE
The CSE calls for mandating environmental and social risk management for internal credit risk appraisal process
Yemen needs aid to tide over worst hunger crisis
Twenty of the country’s 22 governorates are in “emergency” or “crisis” food-insecurity phases and almost two-thirds …
Refuge pockets critical for persistence of Blackbuck in human-dominated landscapes: Study
The study examines how blackbuck use habitats characterised by seasonally changing resources, threats of predators, intensive human pressures in …
Several African countries in need of food assistance
Drought associated with El Nino has affected agriculture prospects in Southern Africa