Uttarakhand on bumpy recovery road

The state needs stringent town planning and environment assessment to prevent disasters

A walk through Mangar Bani, a sacred grove near Delhi

Timber travails

After completing two years as the chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh Mukut Mithi is proud to relate his government's achievements while …

What now ?

Desperate measures are the call of the day. Common people need to have a greater say

The failure

Nationalisation of coalmines has failed badly

Making hell-holes

What slaughter mining and power plants have done to the people and the environment

The key: empowerment

Arouse people's interest in governance

TOURISM & HANDICRAFTS: Backs to the wall

Militancy's most distressing casualties

WATER: Fading glories

Kashmir's dying lakes are choking their dependants

FORESTS: Losing its soul

Rainforest route to clean economy

Kyotos successor should put an economic value to rainforests. A recent treaty shows how

Chipping away

Time was, when the Saranda forest cover was so dense that even the sun's rays couldn't penetrate it. Ironically, denudation has driven the region …

System error

The death of India's cancer control programme and the rise of cancers

Classified ?

The data is rudimentary. The analysis is poor. And is kept secret

Cherrapunjee Now a wet desert

Diversion route

At the crossroads

As the debate continues, the Northeast must stamp the decision: log out of forest bureaucracy and log in to local-based prosperity

The verdict

Read between the lines: the Supreme Court order has a development model hidden for the Northeast

The accused

Governments clinically interpret the ban to make space for the forest bureaucracy, alienating people from their own habitats

The goat gamble

It has been a slow and steady shift over decades. Forced by declining returns from farming in ecologically fragile areas, small farmers have been …

From forestry to productive forestry

Carbon emissions from forests drop by 25 per cent: FAO

Slowdown in deforestation contributes to emission reduction

Science and Technology - Briefs

Treeless forest

How shrimp cultivation turned a mangrove forest into a saline desert

Simian alert!

The orangutan is threatened by poaching and habitat destruction