Pound foolish
The Aral Sea crisis exemplifies " creeping environmental problems", and unless India's environment ministers devote more time to natural resource management, we will multiply tragedies like Kalahandi and Palamau
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Can business be responsible
Call it paranoia or plain silliness. But it is amazing. The Centre for Science and Environment cse has been studying gas pricing in the country to assess how environmentally acceptable fuels can be
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Chekhov's hell: Sakhalin faces ravages of oil majors
LAUREN ALLAN-VAIL When the writer Anton Chekhov described Sakhalin as a hellish place, he could have scarcely anticipated the ravages wrought by big oil companies on
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Heavens end
A requiem to a lost way of life in the Kashmir valley It was another day of my childhood. I ran out of the door of our compound into what seemed like a never-ending grassland. I
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Limits of growth
Book>> The Sick Planet, Corporate Food and Medicine
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South Asia: A Trash Can?
It's time South Asian countries took Iaction to tackle the POP menace. To begin with, they should tell the West that South Asia is not a dirty clumpyard where they can get rid of their toxic wastes
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QED
Scientific proof that pesticides harm the human body
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A lesson unlearnt
Belgium seems to pay little heed to the UK government s handling of the madcow disease
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Living with the Devil's Element
BBC's film on chlorine is more successful in underlining the vital role it plays in daily life, rather than in detailing why it should be banned
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Taxing reforms
Germany s new ecological tax reforms are ridden with flaws
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Setting new limits to scientific knowledge
IN JANUARY 1935, the monthly meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in London was unusually acrimonious. A young researcher from India, Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar, had presented a paper in
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Back to basics
Every <i>taluka</i> in India can meet its own food, water and energy needs
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Energy reclamation
Calvin R Brunner is one of these writers who has his head so - in technical details that he loses sight of "m pactum While his JAmandous Waste nnimina, displays an 1&g knowledge of
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The barometer of change
VITAL Signs responds to the need for information on the trends that are reshaping our world. It surveys 42 global indicators, such as the decline in per capita availability of food and water,
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What's wrong with cheap energy?
Subsidies and low prices of energy do not help the poor, in whose name these steps are ostensibly taken; they merely fatten the urban and rural elite
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Seeking the right symbol
The widespread and diverse use of gobar in Indian society stands up to every principle of good environmentalism. Cowdung is a waste product. Yet, instead of being looked down upon, it is highly respected
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Book review: Oil on the brain
Book>> Oil on the Brain
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Himalayan blunder
Dam makers rake in the moolah irrespective of the amount of electricity projects generate TWO issues back this magazine had done a detailed analysis of the wind energy sector in the country. We told you how wind turbines were being installed in increasing numbers, but performed at a dismal level and generated electricity far lesser than their potential. The policy gave incentive only to
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Eco-friendly last ride
Death drives India
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Because the energy industry dictates our lives
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