In Australia's Queensland state, school children are fighting to save the bilbies. The bilby, a marsupial that lives in the rivers, is threatened by continuing hunts and attacks by cattle. Now, the

The residents of an unauthorised colony in Delhi battle all odds for a cleaner life

A recent Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights (EOHR) report on female circumcision in state hospitals has incensed Egyptian human rights groups, who have launched a vociferous "No!"

The laying out of a golf course on Japan's Amami-Oshama island - the 2nd one there - may push the Amami black hare, the oldest species of hare in the world, to the brink of extinction.

The Vankars of Gujarat have reclaimed saline wastelands in Gujarat after 9 years of bloody struggle

The hopes and aspirations of 1,200 adivasis were reduced to ashes on January 25 this year, when a fire devastated 121 ha of forest area in Motewadi village situated in the Pune district of

With the 4th un Conference on Women and the ngo Forum on Women (Beijing) round the corner, the New York-based Women's Environment and Development Organisation (wedo) has launched the 180 Days/180

Renovating traditiona_1 village reservoirs, farmers in Tamil Nadu are pursuing a green dream

Some Delhi residents tackle the Capital's mountainous garbage problem as civic authorities apathetically look on