Challenges for Anil Madhav Dave, India’s new environment minister

Dave inherits a ministry that is being criticised for diluting environmental laws to facilitate quick industrial growth

MoEF&CC issues recommendations to improve environment clearance and monitoring process

The recommendations come after an audit report found delays in all stages of impact assessment and highlighted other gaps

Now, satellite data can better manage our natural resources

A joint partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization and Google has made this possible

Environment ministry issues fresh notice on demarcation of eco-sensitive zones in Western Ghats

An extension of 60 days has been given to Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu to submit recommendations on their areas of the Western Ghats 

Green reflections

The un hopes to take a lead in environmental management. Whether it lives up to the challenge or not, is still to be seen

Sustainable solutions

BOOK >> A Community Guide to Environmental Health Jeff Conant and Pam Fadem Hesperian Foundation June 2008

Governance matters

It is time we focused on strengthening the capacity of regulatory agencies

Amartya Sen right prize for the wrong work?

Sen's manner of addressing poverty issues has left many questions unanswered

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Fantasy world

Industry sells us a nightmare packaged in a dream world of glitzy cars

Wajihuddin Ahmed on envionmental issues in Pakistan

Managing a crisis

People of the Arwari basin in Alwar, take proactive measures to battle drought

Draft EIA notification 2020: Is it contra legem to international conventions, judicial verdicts

The draft Environment Impact Assessment notification aims to set aside several essential provisions such as public consultation, and plans to …

Bhutan: Pursuit of happiness

Karma Tshiteem is the secretary of the Gross National Happiness Commission, the novel name of Bhutan’s Planning Commission. He tells Aditya …

No way out

Officials are now promoting a new paradigm for flood control. They are pushing for a huge dam in Nepal. Does it provide scope for further …

State of despair

Criminals followed corrupt politicians into grabbing contracts related to earthworks. Today, they fund political parties and virtually run the …

The shifting sands

At first the rivers and the people were both unfettered. Then the politicians came between them

Small towns do not degrade the rural environment

Auroville, or 'the city of dawn', is a unique township located in a predominantly rural district of Villupuram in Tamil Nadu. At the time of its …

The new order

No site in sight

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2010: choose your future today

Case for dam destruction

How many dams have to be brought down to restore the salmon population? What will it cost?

The many-straw revolution

Strict environmental policies

The struggle to restore river normalcy gathers momentum in the US with strict sanctions on dam construction