Are community reserves the answer to conservation?

The 2002 Amendment to the Indian Wildlife Protection Act (1972) -- the bible of the conservation movement -- calls for a new category of …

On paper

The Green Rating Project (GRP) of the Centre for Science and Environment was conceived as a means to track the environmental performance of India'…

Flawed legislation

Centre’s law to regulate healthcare system faces resistance in many states

Who’s afraid of auctioning coal?

Centre continues to allocate coal blocks despite calls for competitive bidding

Staying legal, staying reasonable

A law can be effective only if it's reasonable

Depleting cover

Forest cover in Europe is decreasing at an alarming rate, says a new study

UNITED NATIONS

High on gas

Mere paperwork

The state government of Goa acknowledges that a green law passed in 1996 is toothless

TOBACCO MENACE

Water wars

Panchayat fights to retain what is left of Saligao's groundwater

EU casts its net wider

Fishworkers' union calls off stir after meeting PM

HP snubbed

For denotifying forestland

Power-packed option

Even remote areas can be electrified through biomass gasification

Anti-GM suit in Pakistan

The verdict is out

Consumer rights receive a fizzy fillip

Bittersweet

ec sugar reform proposal doesn't please anyone

Let the tiger roam

Reverse gear

New EU groundwater laws flayed

Sham, sham

A recent survey finds the food for work progamme mired in corruption

In court

A concession called SEZ, all for foreign exchange

Special Economic Zones barter away democracy

Strong colas and weak governments

US coast may open for drilling