India@75 India at 75 | Timeline: EnvironmentLyla BavadamThere have been innumerable hurdles, but the battle remains spirited.
Climate concernsR. RAMACHANDRANAn Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that it is human activity that has essentially contributed to global warming in the last 50 yea
The receding GangotriR. RAMACHANDRANThe Himalayan glacier that feeds the Ganga is receding at a worrying rate, the rate of retreat in the last three decades having been more than three t
An exercise in conservationASHISH KOTHARIIndia's biggest environment and development planning exercise involving biological scientists, Dalits and Adivasis gets under way.
Food security in perilOrissa is officially not among the drought-affected States of the country, but food security in the State is threatened as agricultural activity is ye
'The situation is extraordinary'Food-for-work has been a time-tested means of combating drought and famine around the world. The World Food Programme (WFP), the food-aid arm of the U
Gujarat's thirstLYLA BAVADAM recently in GujaratDistress migration of people and large-scale death of livestock have peaked. And this time the urban segments are as badly hit as the rural areas.
THE DROUGHT CRISISThe drought stalking several States is about distribution of scarce natural endowments and institutional rigidities that have rendered a durable publi
Drought and delayed reliefPARVATHI MENON in MahbubnagarAlmost a third of Andhra Pradesh is in the grip of a drought as a result of the failure of the monsoon and the failure of the State Government to heed
Parched landsAs lakes go dry and the groundwater level drops, 26 Rajasthan districts face an acute drinking water crisis.
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.
