Heritage valley in danger
The Valley of Flowers in Uttarakhand, a World Heritage Site, may have been damaged in the recent floods in the state. A look at what makes this …
Before the last trumpet
Captive elephants of Kerala suffer because there is no proper policy for their management and welfare
Water from waste
With water scarcity gripping many parts of the country, people are talking about rainwater harvesting, but none about wastewater, which can also …
Suffering from myopia
George Bush may not understand the 'science' of climate change. But the corporate houses behind him will soon understand the global benefits of …
Tigers fall prey to development
In southern Maharashtra an area rich in wildlife is being opened for plantations and mines
Food security bill forgoes nutrition security
The bill will ensure food for millions of hungry Indians. But has the government identified them?
Tuberculosis control in India: towards universal access
Revised TB control programme needs to evolve an inclusive business model to engage the Indian private sector to ensure better quality of TB care
Mined to death: an elegy for the rivers of Meghalaya
The rivers in the Jaintia Hills have turned deep blue; mines and cement factories have killed all fish and aquatic life in them
Water Footprint: a stumbling block?
As government mulls using water footprint as a tool to measure water consumption by farming and industrial processes, experts warn of its limitations
How effective are environmental PILs
Judiciary's pro-development tilt is making activists seek recourse at the societal level
In solidarity
The cover story 'Facing a silent spring...', (Down To Earth, Vol 5, No 13), about its editor Anil Agarwal's personal tryst with the consequences …
Basic Instinct
In a simultaneous press release issued on Monday, 26 June 2000, the Human Genome Project, an international government-funded project, and Celera …
EnrichingIndia's soil
Composting of urban waste can meet India'sorganic manure shortage and clean up our cities
Gone to the shepherd in the sky
Writer Gerald Malcom Durrell's death leaves a void in both the animal and the human world
Eugenics in black and white
People with fascism in their genes insist again that high intelligence is a White racial trait
The problem with not legalising drugs
To do or not to do: is keeping narcotics illicit helping the underworld?
Death of a genius
Nonconformist to the core, Linus C Pauling epitomised the spirit of science and peace
Hellocalling anywhere
C-DOT is transforming the way rural India communicates
Deep invasion
But will Indian women be safe using Depo Provera?
Hacked heart
Why did they have to do it?
Commoner's scientist passes away
Cyril Ponnamperuma's death leaves a void in the world's scientific community
Co-existing in harmony
...is the only way towards the realisation of a more meaningful ecological polity
Games genes play
The 'selfish gene' is the one which loses in the long run and in this game, the meek survives
Weather bothers
... was a small-time occupation of the eccentric scientist just 20 years ago
Built to last
Designing a sustainable product is not easy. The common lawnmower has taught us that