DHOLAVIRA, the first known Indian city, ranks with Mohenjodaro, Harappa, Ganweriwala (now all in Pakistan) and Rakhigarhi (India) as one of the 5 largest urban centres of the Harappan civilisation. A

SATELLITE imagery suggests that there should be a large reservoir -- most probably an artificial one -- buried southwest of Dholavira. One of the best cultivated fields in the locality is contiguous

Several countries are getting tough with tiger poachers and traders in what may be the final attempt to save the magnificent beast:

RUSSIAN biologists tracking tigers normally depend on the usual method of looking for pugs in the snow. But Galina Salkina, a Russian researcher who attended the Global Tiger Forum meet, has

Tiger Territory: then and now

Over the past 30 years, the environmental movement in the West has grown dramatically and moved from strength to strength. But little has been written about how this movement has been organised.

Cultivation with the least amount of human intervention can yield rich harvests and does not degrade the soil

When it started, it was considered a part of the lunatic fringe. Greenpeace is today perhaps the most influential of green movements

A couple in Maharashtra, who practice organic farming, have also set up a non governmental organisation to motivate others to follow suit

The environmental movement in the USA began with the bleeding heart propagation of a pastoral ideal: the national parks. The founders of the Sierra Club were all passionate woodsmen first and philanthropes later