'Sab kuch chalta hai!'
When 4,000 scientists gather for their annual session, there's more than serious academic review that takes place. RUSTAM VANIA records his …
Just (w)right!
Removing their blinkers is what scribes should do in order to promote an international environmental communication order that is fair and just
Carrying over
Solid waste management could benefit from adopting the traditional method of decentralised composting
For whom the school bells toll?
India's education policy has only sought to alienate the students and also deepen the urban-rural divide
Lillehammer
One town in Europe has shown how to host a major world sporting event, with all its attendant chaos, and still avoid environmental devastation
Time to sit up
A green clean or the polluted nether worlds? The choice must be made soon. May be global 'redistribution of opportunities' in the countries of …
Mad hatter's tea party
Some US-based environmental wisemen started out to debate Bihar's problems, sans field knowledge, and went back home foot-in-mouth
Winding roads to welfare
Humans just do not live by bread alone. But to climb the steps leading to total welfare, somewhere that equilibrium between work and …
Why the US is shy
European governments are looking forward to cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Although the US wants to follow suit, it has some apprehensions
In favour of
...biodiversity or bio-plurality? What is of essence is to sustain all that is in the biosphere rather than conserve few forms of biodiversity, …
No charity at home
Is the individual's attempt at environmental awareness limited mostly to sermonising about big issues?
Healthy advertising
Are advertisers bound -- legally or ethically -- to take potential health hazards into account?
The view from below
Development strategies cry out for a "bottoms-up" approach that involves the intended beneficiaries
Gimme eat!
In America today, the revolutionary question is not how to get food to eat -- it's what and how much
Unconventional interference
The United States has decreed that GATT will have the last word on intellectual property rights, thus throwing the Biodiversity Convention to the …
When fathers harass their sons
Among white-fronted bee-eaters, a bird species found abundantly in east and central Africa, fathers torment their sons and physically prevent …
Need for an overhaul
Scientific research and organisation must be completely re-oriented to a more balanced development of the planet.
The global environmental fiasco
After six meetings on how to restructure the Global Environment Facility, a consensus remains elusive.
Going public
A unique experiment to involve the people in bringing water to desert communities is under way in Rajasthan.
Beyond home
Bill Clinton's absence from the Copenhagen summit on social development underscores the post-Cold War parochialism that has gripped the American …
Walking tall
Jonas Salk, the man who humbled the dreaded polio virus, was that rarest of scientists, the "unconventional upstart"
Global democracy tilts at the axis
Are the "forces of freedom" in the West muscular enough to deepen democracy at the global level?
Earth health
Clinically clean, gleamingly coloured, hermetically sealed fruits and vegetables face the challenge of organic food
A green front is not enough
It is time to question whether the new green urgency of big business is a genuine change of heart
Straight from the puppet's mouth
Why should it matter if messages are effectively conveyed through tales, songs and plays rather than from the mouths of scientists bogged down in …