A heat wave in Orissa that has claimed at least 50 lives draws attention to the alarming change in the State's climate, which experts attribute to reckless industrialisation and unchecked

The UPA government should ensure the passage of the Bill on protecting forests and forest dwellers, brushing aside efforts to dilute or subvert it. The proposed new law to recognise and protect the

Poisonous gases released into the air by some chemical units in the SIPCOT industrial estate in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, continue to endanger the lives and livelihoods of people in a number of villages

A titanium dioxide factory in Thiruvananthapuram dumps hazardous waste into the sea in spite of court orders, and the Kerala government is helping it secure immunity from environmental

The villagers moved out of the Kuno forest to make way for Gir lions complain that they have got little of the rehabilitation package they were

Tribal people resist the Madhya Pradesh government's drive to evict them from areas they have lived in for decades. On April 16, the small town of Nepanagar, not far from the historic fortress of

A new Bill proposes to make amends for the injustice done to India's tribal people by restoring their rights to traditional means of

The Asiatic lions of Gir are the world's last surviving group of the sub-species in the wild. Lions in Gir look for new territories as the sanctuary is not large enough for their population. The Gir

The Tiger Task Force appointed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the wake of the horrendous Sariska crisis has a historic opportunity. It can either go the conventional way, asking for a vastly

The warning is dire: The ecosystem is severely threatened and the aggressor is man. This dire warning comes from the United Nations' Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis Report, the first