In court

2006: the tiger re-appears

Breathe easy

EU proposes cleaner air

Some funds creating green portfolios, but investment routes won't change soon

Bear killings raise furore in J&K

Access to justice curbed

Agartala's highrises get notice

Three cheers for democracy

India signs nuclear convention

Intended as gift to Obama

A bad example from the US

A public sector technology transfer bill focuses exclusively on patenting

Seed bill retake

Monitor seed prices, not just quality, say farmer groups  

Poor count

Defining poverty is crucial to make the food security bill effective

Blood on the Internet

Governments are censoring digital content on the ground that it infringes intellectual ­property rights or offends people. Can they be stopped?

The red triangle

The government, the judiciary and the people have to take action together to stop environmental damage. Laws have to be enacted and cases taken …

Strict environmental policies

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

Haunted by the past

Five years ago, Nigerian social activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was killed because he fought against multinational oil companies and dared to assert the …

Strengthening the act

Amendments proposed to the Insecticides Act seek to give it more muscle and check the growth of spurious pesticides

Generating controversy

Environment ministry favours small manufacturers, ignores experts' advice on air emission norms for off-road diesel engines

Wildlife board discovers it has no say

Though touted as a statutory body with teeth, the National Wildlife Board was tamed by Union minister for environment and forests T R Baalu at …

A mountain to climb

Cash-strapped Uttaranchal embarks on industrialisation. However, its policies are frightfully blind to green issues

Black attack

Has the Union ministry of environment and forests laid malicious siege to Dahanu taluka, in Maharashtra's Thane district?

New US rules on food imports

It has been nine months since the US began its search for chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Although nothing was found,…

One step forward, many steps back

Some recent amendments to the Wildlife Protection Act could infuse new life into a fusty act, but there are others that threaten to pull matters back

Are we ready to hand over on our life-forms?

There are certain plants, vegetables and fruits indigenous to India having medicinal properties. The knowledge of these properties rests with …

The CNG imperative

More than 50,000 additional deaths will occur over the next ten years, from 2001 to 2010, from toxic particles in Delhi if the Supreme Court …