Victims of modernisation

Tribal communities of Andaman and Nicobar Islands face extinction

Look what our neighbour is up to!

Myanmar has not sqandered its natural resources in an attempt to ape the West

Rapid urbanisation in Delhi-NCR creating heat stress, abetting climate change

Urbanisation has exacerbated air pollution levels, shrunk water bodies, increased temperature and heat emissions

Rapid urbanisation: Where do urban poor stand?

Delhi is the sixth-largest metropolis in the world. And yet, a third of its residences are part of slums with no basic resources 

Breaching the threshold

How do we sustain our consumption patterns? And how can we feed the 1.2 billion living in poverty?

Need vs greed

There is little talk of curbing water use in urban India. Cities’ insatiable water demand, coupled with leaky pipelines, is leading to …

Keep it flowing

Tour of a house that thrives on air circulation, saves energy cost

Shaking trade

Seawind gets a helipad

E-tendering saves Rs 2.50 crore

Wasted

Mumbai fixes space for hawkers

Vendors call policy anti-business  

What’s good insulation?

Many architects use imported, expensive and environmentally inappropriate material

Slums as self-confrontation

The attempt to free cities of slums will only make them invisible  

A victim of urbanisation

Save lakes from the sins of humanity

Growing urban pressures

Bloated cities

Smoggy days in Kathmandu

Ecology becomes integral part of state policy

With pollution threatening to smother Egypt, environmental planning is becoming central to the country's economic policies

Simply Put: High-handed highways

Bridging the rural-urban divide

Instead of setting overambitious targets, the government should ensure speedy implementation of the Rurban Mission

Kartik Chandran: Converting faecal sludge to bio-diesel

Kartik Chandran, Associate Professor at Henry Krumb School of Mines, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University talks …

The myth of green building

How smart is a smart city?