Feature Article

A grassroots level fight is on in the Philippines against big trawlers fishing in other people's waters, and related problems

What was once thought to be the friends of farmers and containers of vector borne diseases, are turning out to be a global threat

Mutual cooperation, community effort and humane soldiers save a dozen Punjab villages from annual flooding

Can protected areas survive the multitude of pressures without the participation of people? Neena Singh explores the issue

Indian fisherfolk are on the warpath once again, targeting joint venture trawling in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The National Fisheries Action Committee Against Joint Venture trawling

Given a free hand, industry will turn to huge chucks of forests in the country into ecological graveyards

The wise use of the wonderous sewan grass is fast being hedged out by water intensive agriculture, opening up a thorny issue

In 1986, for the 8th consecutive, year, the district of Jaisall faced another year of severe famine and drought. T year's drought was unprecedented, affecting 26 out of 27 disti of Rajasthan.

Concentrations of persistent organochlorine residues were determined in fish collected from several locations in eastern and southern Asia and Oceania to identifythe accumulation features of such residues in tropical aquatic organisms and to elucidate their distribution in tropical developing countries. DDT and its derivatives (DDTs) were the predominantly identified compounds in most locations.

Port Blair, port city of the Andamans, is in a developmental cul de sac