WATERY PROBLEM

WATERED DOWN

WILD CRIMES

Best kept secret

The Delhi Right to Information Bill 2001 is not without loopholes

On the boil

In the dumps

Delhi hospitals continue to flout biomedical waste management norms

Safeguards missing

Africa's lax biopiracy laws leave its rich biodiversity exposed

Sharp reminder

Jammu and Kashmir High Court gets tough on imposition of ban on shahtoosh products

Bagging Success

Tax on plastic shopping bags in Ireland pays rich dividends

Military manoeuvre

No mining

Uttaranchal village relieved

Poplar demand

Trees take centrestage in Himachal Pradesh

In Court

Cost-a DBCP? Sterility, cancer

Entangled

10,000+ south Bengal fisherfolk, in a net not of their making

Daft release?

India unveils its National Environment Policy 2004. Is it possible to smell a rat?

Shoring up

Concern over contaminant in Washington's water

Living with big brothers

The new members have to spruce up their environmental regulatory mechanisms

Sinking feeling

Of rising temperatures and dipping groundwater levels

Under fire

EPA sued for soft-pedalling

Bleeding white

Antarctic microbes could be rampantly exploited to benefit a few

Oil spoils

That, too, for very long

Silver lining

Rules abate mercury pollution

MoEF falters

New draft environmental clearance process full of gaps

100 per cent FDI in housing

Will Maharashtra boom or boomerang?