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A different waste model
(by Sunita Narain)


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green hunt

 

The truth about Operation Green Hunt
NGOs: “Tribals suffer heinous atrocities in the name of ‘Naxal clamp-down’ ”
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  Video:
monsoons
  Why are monsoons difficult to predict?
B N Goswami

WATCH: Part - I
WATCH: Part - II
 
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swine flu
  Swine Flu, pandemic threat
Track the survival tale of Influenza
mean sea level
  Residents of Sunderbans bear the brunt of rising sea levels, unmet Kyoto targets
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  Press release
(Feb. 25, 2009)
A tale of disappearing islands and lost addresses
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Event: Global film premier
Slideshow: Film stills
Factsheet
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JOURNALISM AWARDS
APFEJ Announces 2009
Asia-Pacific Environmental Journalism Awards

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why this magazine
 
 
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MW solar power Pie in the sky

India has set an ambitious target of producing 22,000 MW solar power by 2022. What does this mean for a country currently generating 8-12 MW solar power? A look at the technology, cost and operational challenges

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feature news
  Vegetable retail
Mart on a cart
A vegetable retail strategy that involves
farmers and vendors
No sir
A constable refuses to take bribes, sends corrupt policemen behind bars

News
  demand farmer groups
Not free but fair
The seed bill should regulate prices,
not just quality of seeds, demand
farmer groups
Who should fix price of Bt cotton
seeds, private companies or states?
The young menopaused
Andhra Pradesh’s health insurance scheme makes hysterectomy a
lucrative business
Delhi prepares contingency plan
Does the government have enough
time to implement it?
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Opinions
Editor's Page
A different waste model
(by Sunita Narain)
Postscript
When the government must step in
Crosscurrents
Biometric data, a security threat
   (by Nishant Shah)
Public-private partnerships unmasked
   (by Gaurav Dwivedi)
science
Caught: coconut root wilt pathogen
Sip soft drinks, age faster
Omega-3 fatty acids are good
     painkillers
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Review
BOOK: War Games: The story of aid and war in modern times
(by Linda Polman)
Book: The Plundered Planet: How to    Reconcile Prosperity with Nature
Book: The World According to    Monsanto
   (directed by Marie-Monique Robin )

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EYJAFJALLAJÖKULL ERUPTS
(June 15, 2010)



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The continent dodders as the automobile industry
hardsells cars as the key to a lifestyle of wealth and freedom.


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The continent dodders as the automobile industry
hardsells cars as the key to a lifestyle of wealth and freedom.


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  Union Carbide officials held guilty, but bailed 
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  Environmental journalism at the time of economic liberalisation
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    Video:
    Waterworks India: Chewang Norphell
    leh city
   
  Copyright discography
  discography
 
  CRZ
Coastal Management
   
  CRZ
   

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  E-waste

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  Making of a toy
On skype with Barry Matthew Kudrowitz, an instructor on toy design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
good toy

says Jairam Ramesh, India’s Union Minister of Forests and Environment to South Asian journalists attending a workshop organized by CSE on the 28th of August in New Delhi.


Watch Shyam Saran, Special Envoy of the Indian Prime Minister on Climate Change brief South Asian journalists and field questions from them

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E-waste
e-waste

Photo feature
What a Waste

Infographic
infographic
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Things are connected.
So are the stories.

Photo feature
stone water spouts


   
  Radiation leak in West Delhi
Cobalt 60 injured five, investigations under way
(By Savvy Soumya Mishra)
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Stroke the cat.
Stroke the cat

Citizen Science
Does the lay person need to have an academic degree to be labeled a scientist? Not according to some proponents of citizen science.
Listen

A Day on the Metro
 
metro

Metro madness
Commuters fret over (and praise) this recent public transport system
Delhi metro's
 

 
Slums & Society
slums & society

    Community Radio: Gurgaon Ki Awaaz

  history of urinal
  A Brief History of the Urinal
How did the Urinal come into existence? A look at all the events leading up to the urinal.


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  Occasional
    A series on cyclists and their daily rides towards danger.
     
   
     
      A Toilet of One's Own
 
   
     
 
     
    info graphics
    Info graphics
Paving Your Way to Accidents
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  radioRadio
Dodging between playstations and homework, do children need toys or are we buying these out of habit?
A child psychologist, a parent and a toy designer offer inputs
   
 
   
  Why Vedanta Stays in news
A time line traces the stories Down To Earth has run on Vedanta's questionable past in Orissa.
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  e-governance
  Is the new e-governance policy actually catering to the audience it is meant for?
   
 
   
 
   
  Video:
  What is a good toy? Sudarshan Khanna, former Professor of design at National Institute of Design explains the process of developing a toy, giving examples of his favourite folk toys
good toy
 
  What Car?
 
  At the 10th edition of Delhis auto expo, major brands attempt a green image. But what do consumers desire?
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  New ambient air quality standards
   
  are out. More cities and towns are now critically polluted. Is your city one of
them? Find out

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  Video:
  A bonesetter from Old Delhi explains his popularity: Unlike doctors, he is more accountable to people
 

 
 

 
dte radio
  Professor Mike Hulme was the Founding Director of the internationally renowned Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and has served as a Lead Author on the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change in 1996 and 2001.
 
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RTI status: Check out if information is available in your state
Arvind Kejriwal on RTI

Photo feature
Stone crushers
  Making a living from stones. People of Mahoba district in Uttar Pradesh don’t think it’s a fair deal.

Residents in Chennai refuse to sell their garbage to ITC

Pay to park? Pune's residents don't think so...

Bt Brinjals in markets near you
Listen to Bhargava’s       interview

  Locate The Leak
Is 24/7 water for real or just a pipe dream?

  CLIMATE CHANGE: Solutions Await!
NOE21
 
Video:
People from Himachal doubt cement plant
  Harvesting Pearls in Una
Himachal Pradesh wakes up to artificial pearl harvest – a new, environment-friendly business avenue.
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  How Punjabi are you?
punjabi recipesTry these
recipes of yore
to find out
  Hand Foot and Mouth Disease in Thane
  Read more...
  The Local Solution
Now tribal battalions will be recruited to fight Naxalism in Maharashtra

(By Aparna Pallavi)
  Goa: Losing Beaches, One tar ball at a time
The issue isn’t even a blip on the Government radar yet.

(By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar)
  Slide Show:
Green Pease
  Greenpeace protest against Nestle’s GM stand October 08, 2009
  Video:
R.S Bisht revisits the Harappan site in Dholavira
Locate on an interactive map,
the cause and effect of the drought
  Video:
Getting your house painted?
tristram stuart
Tristram Stuart, the author of Waste: Uncovering a global food scandal,  says the easiest way of saving the planet is not to waste food.
Listen to the interview
See photographs that prove Stuart's claim.
climate alert

Public hearings in Raigarh
Audio: Environment Minister  wants to be strict
Video: But, CSE find gaps in EIA reports
PDF: Stage-managed hearings in raigarh
Engineering Floods
Violent
Panorama of
Kosi floods
Readers Dispatch
Residents angry at a city that has sufficient water but refuses to guarantee equal access
Ammonia leak haunts Bhopal surviver
Vedanta wins
environment award.
Activists up in arms
The award winning tamasha...
Activists block Vedanta from receiving the Golden Peacock
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  Aila @ 110 km/hr
Aila
Images after Aila cyclone, brought back by photographers of Drik India/ MajorityWorld, organizations dedicated to development photography in the South
Unofficial anger: DTE's Alok Gupta reflects on Aila


Satellite images of cyclone
Cogeneration
energy deficit

Can cogeneration bridge the energy deficit?
We snooped around for examples from within and outside India

RTI activists
RTI activists jailed for singing the National Anthem
Cycle of movement
wins in the race
  Watch video to find out who wins in the race to emit more
 
Gimme way
cyclists
  Documented evidence
reveals why cyclists are a
confused, pesky lot
 
Slideshow: Dogged determination to go places has its funny moments on the road
recyclers
   
  Trade secrets
The great Indian recyclers go candid on what it takes to be a true professional
Slideshow
tiger in corbett
Tiger tales
Ravleen Kaur heard many stories tailing the tiger in Corbett

farmers

Watch on youtube
The making of CFL...
Making of CFLs
Demand and trade of CFLs
Small Scale CFL Production
 


   


 
   
 
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