Yamuna crosses danger mark in Delhi, over 2,000 families living along river bank evacuated
Over 130 dead in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh flash floods, hundreds missing

Could the Uttarakhand tragedy have been avoided, or at least minimised? There is no simple answer.

As the death toll in Uttarakhand mounts and rescue operations continue in various parts of the Himalayan state, environmentalists have been blaming the successive governments ruling the ecologicall

Ecologists point out that the huge expansion of hydro-power projects and construction of roads to cope with the lakhs of tourists in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh has compounded the scale of the

We are blind to those who walk. That's why pavements are the first casualty of street widening to accommodate cars

Have you ever noticed a footpath? Does it even exist? And if it does, what is its height above the road? What should be the ideal height that enables pedestrians to walk without the fear of being run over or breaking a leg clambering onto the footpath and, at the same time, doesn't allow cars to park and take over this public space?

Instead of becoming the messenger of the new co-operative world, solar energy is getting embroiled in battles

Last week Europe finally imposed stiff anti-dumping duties on solar panels imported from China. The Chinese have, in turn, threatened that they will take action against European exports of polysilicon, the raw material used to manufacture solar panels.

Kasturirangan panel member Sunita Narain says the proposed dam will affect downstream flow

Athirappilly hydel power project proposed across Chalakudy River cannot be implemented in its present form, environmental activist Sunita Narain, who heads the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), has said. She is a member of the High Level Working Group on Western Ghats, chaired by K. Kasturirangan, which looked into the viability of the project.

With monoculture taking over, the only biodiversity that will remain will be stored inside the cold and controlled environments of gene pool labs
Sunita Narain

Engineers require retraining, not the Ganga. This is where I left our conversation in my previous column. Why did I say this?