India's Best and Worst States

• Are you a smoker and want to quit? Doing that now can win you lakhs of rupees. The World Health Organization is sponsoring a

Into its second year as the exclusive National Environment and Wildlife Film Festival of India, Vatavaran 2003 will screen seventy films on environmental issues

Julia Bonds, a grandmother living in the state of West Virginia, usa, has been awarded the 2003 Goldman environmental prize for her fearless campaigning against the hazardous practice of mountaintop coal mining. Bonds, the director of the protest group Co

SANCTUARY AWARDS . Sanctuary Magazine . ABN-Amro . India Sanctuary magazine and ABN-Amro bank have chosen four forest officers and a grassroots activist as Earth Heroes for this year's Sanctuary

SASAKAWA AWARD . UNEP . October . 2002 Ashok Khosla, the president of New Delhi-based non-governmental organisation Development Alternatives, had not just the courage to think innovatively but

PILE OF PERIL: Toxic waste from piles of unused pesticides in Africa is threatening people's health and the environment. Despite several clean-up measures by the Rome-based Food and Agriculture