Feature Article

From the timing, it looks as if an episode of marked oceanic oxygen deficiency during the Cretaceous was the result of undersea volcanism. Studies of such events are relevant to the warming world of today.

A research vessel embedded in the thinning Arctic sea ice has a front-row seat for the cryospheric show of the century. Quirin Schiermeier reports from Darnley Bay, Canada.

Dinitrogen (N2) fixation is widely recognized as an important

Geological map pinpoints fresh areas of contamination in Asia.

Ashutosh Mishra

Also called The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, FRA recognizes

February 7: Tribal welfare department target forming a state-level monitoring committee February 12-29: Dissemination of information regarding the Chhattisgarh guidelines along with training of members of the forest rights committee (FRC), sub divisional level committee (SDLC) and district level committee (DLC) February 25-29: FRC, SDLC and DLC to be formed March 1

The traditional forest dweller has had very few entitlements down centuries. Guardian of the forest, he has been regarded as encroacher by the State. All that is changing now as the Forest Rights Act of 2006 is being implemented across the country since January this year. Down To Earth tracks the progress of the new law

SAVVY SOUMYA MISRA State players in Chhattisgarh

The confusion is at its peak in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, a Union Territory abutting Maharashtra. One gram panchayat there has three villages and holding group gram panchayats involves 10-11 villages. The administrative machinery is ignorant of the Act and no gram sabhas have been called so far. Instead, the forest department has started removing tribals from the land and is planting trees.