Mining Turning over a new lease? Pamela D’Mello The Goa government decides to renew 27 mining leases on the basis of a High Court order, ...
Environmental clearances Clearance mela S. Gopikrishna Warrier With development high on its agenda, the BJP government is pushing through environmental ...
Sanctuaries Breathing room With the creation of two new sanctuaries, Maharashtra shows the way for a fresh approach ...
Conservation Tiger at home A.J.T. JOHNSINGH The Indian subcontinent can support around 3,700 tigers if there is a large track of ...
Conservation Killing fields The houbara bustard is being hunted into extinction. Are we prepared to remain mute ...
BNHS report Hail of death A BNHS report shows mass mortality of wildlife in a series of hailstorms in Maharashtra on ...
Wildlife Live and let live Jennie R. B. Miller Attacks by tigers and leopards on livestock cause devastating losses to owners at the ...
Government Air of uncertainty Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar will not have to worry about pressures from ...
Elusive hunter “Now you are a beauty,” said the Ethiopean. “You can lie on the ground and look like a ...
Corbett Reserve In Jim Corbett landscape A. J. T. JohnsinghBivash Pandav A walk through the Corbett Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand, taking in its many wildlife ...
Industrial Safety Norms to the winds SAGNIK DUTTA In view of the violation of the norms for the health and safety of workers in thermal ...
Ritwick Dutta, environmental lawyer ‘Quality of EIA reports a major concern’ RITWICK DUTTA, an environment lawyer, has been fighting for the rights of local ...
Jairam Ramesh ‘I don’t subscribe to the mad scramble to clear projects’ T.K. RAJALAKSHMI Interview with Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister for Rural Development.
Land acquisition Bypassing a law The promise to fast-track environmental clearances raises concerns about whether such ...
Natural resources Vanishing commons Divya Trivedi Across the country, the common wealth of the people, like land and water, is being sold ...
Environmental clearances Mining concerns The decision to allow the expansion of coal mines without environmental clearances and a ...
Forest Rights Act Rules and reality Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta While Forest Department officials deny forest dwellers their right to land and to collect ...
Cover Story Licence to plunder SAGNIK DUTTA In a bid to make the UPA government appear investor-friendly, M. Veerappa Moily gives ...
Moths Bow out, butterfly a candle has been lit inside me, for which the sun is a moth. --Maarif 1 by Bahauddin ...
Conservation Tiger and some home truths RAKESH SHUKLA As the four-yearly tiger estimation begins, a look at some of the measures that need to be ...
Western Ghats Unsettling report R. Krishnakumar The Kasturirangan Committee’s recommendations on protecting the fragile ecology of the ...
Conservation The elephant in the room A. Rangarajan When forests fragment, elephant populations fragment too. Just as fragmented forests ...
Natural Disaster Acing the forecast R. RAMACHANDRAN The India Meteorological Department, with improved models and observation systems and ...
Where the West went wrong THE Dvorak technique of intensity estimation with satellite imageries is a manual ...
