Solution to crisis: start planning now

What’s eating up the state’s water

More than 2,000 mm of rain in 2003 but crops destroyed and farmers committing suicide; crores spent on 31 irrigation projects but villages going thirsty; 44 rivers but groundwater is sinking. After travelling through Kerala, T V JAYAN finds a drought ami

Ana S.L. Rodrigues and Mohamed I Bakarr in an exclusive interview with Nitin Sethi

The world is getting fatter, sicker

Governments, industries gang up against WHO s plan

Lobbies use the old trick

Indian lac production has hit an all-time low. RICHARD MAHAPATRA seeks remedies

Monsanto ups the Bt cotton ante with a feel-good survey

Protected areas fail as refuge

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