Court ruling on tree felling worries officials
A dispute over a plot demarcation has highlighted the problem of protecting privately owned forests in Himachal.
Officials shed crocodile tears
Crocodiles today abound in captive breeding centres in India. But the government still applies to them a protection law that was relevant two …
Neem gains honour as India's wonder tree
Known in ancient India as a tree with many wondrous properties, the neem tree is slowly drawing the attention of the country's scientific and …
Organic cotton is catching on
Health concerns have led to increasing production of organically grown cotton, which uses less pesticide
Making profits for the West
While western investors are lining their pockets with Papua New Guinea's rich natural resources, all the government is getting in return is a …
CFC phaseout timing sparks North-South row
The recent conference in Geneva, held to discuss moving up the date set for phasing out CFCs, got stuck over the question of aid to developing …
Crop species disappearing in Garhwal
A survey reveals a drastic fall in Garhwal Himalayan crop diversity. Compounding the seriousness of the situation is the lack of scientific …
A watered-down capitulation
Who should benefit from biotechnology? The South, where the genes originate, or the North, with its massive gene banks? Commercial interests …
Politics of punctuation
A comma gave rise to an argument over whether technology transfer should take place according to terms agreed upon at Rio or terms mutually …
Asia countries say no to US cancer sticks
The US is pushing its tobacco industry in Asian countries, despite stringent laws against smoking in several of these countries
The fight to save Moenjodaro
A worldwide initiative to save the ancient city is trying to lower the water table around it and bind back the Indus before it gets washed away
Government policy wrong, says scientist
The government is on the wrong track and it's infected blood, not sexual intercourse, which transmits AIDS in the country
Japanese unhappy about resettlement plans
The Japanese have refuted Indian press reports that they were satisfied with R&R measures for the Narmada dam project
The gender benders
A recent study gives disturbing revelations about the impact that everyday-use chemicals may have on the human sperm count and even induce sex change
Himachal cement plants face flak
The Himachal government's plans to install cement plants in the state create a none too happy situation
Paper capers
A debate crackles over a government decision to allow paper plantations to remain in degraded forests
Laying India to waste
Greenpeace sounds a red alert about toxic waste imports into India at workshops across the country
Gasbagging
How good are the North's offers of joint implementation programmes with the South to cut the latter's carbon dioxide emissions?
Gassing the truth
More than a decade after the Bhopal gas disaster, the data collected from those exposed to the gas remains shrouded in mystery
Autopsy of a betrayal
The Prime Minister has exposed his political immaturity on a matter as grave as the Sardar Sarovar Project and the bureaucracy has forced his …
A step forward
A new draft has been prepared by the Union ministry of environment and forests to draw up a legislation regulating the country's biodiversity. …
Misdirected drive
Even as the Municipal Corporation of Delhi is taking strict measures to prevent mosquito breeding, experts feel the onus is more on the …
A price on the living
Environmentalists allege that the European Parliament has sold out to multinational firms by allowing patents on lifeforms
Tirade against toxins
There is no safe disposal of tonnes of hazardous wastes imported to India, observes the Supreme Court
In support of Hazare
Politicians, social activists and non-governmental organisations rally behind Anna Hazare