Vivek Menon
Retreating Arctic ice caps, the plight of the polar bears and the question of speciation in a summer of forebodings
Pained by rampant deforestation, he has created a private ecosystem
With globalisation making us adopt the world’s best practices, could bathroom behaviour be far behind?
In Kerala, the Church fuels an agitation based on a misreading of an environmental report on the Western Ghats
Environmentalism is often an expendable cause to a majority that fears economic oppression by a minority with delusions of saving the earth. But we need not take sides. From corporations striving to harness massive wind power along the Atlantic Coast, to the Herculean trash collectors of the Pacific; from a cross-country initiative to save the vibrant Mekong river basin, to modern China embarking on another, greener Great Wall, five exciting and ambitious projects show how all of us have an incentive to shape the future rather than fight it
Call them just another form of fungi if you want, but here is someone who expects them to save the world
A first generation Soliga post-graduate, C Made Gowda used research to secure his tribe’s future in its ancient home