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Doomsday foretold
If the collapse of Larsen B was a wake-up call, surely the taxicab is now tooting outside the door: researchers this week report that the entire Antarctic continent is warming, in spite of the...
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The lion sleeps tonight
“No lions today, madam,” our guide said, rather redundantly, since we’d been circling the Sasan Gir national park for the past 3 hours in ‘jeepsie’ and hadn’t spotted so much as a whisker, let alone...
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Money or the climate?
With heads of states still raw from Davos, the globe’s economic woes were high on the agenda at the Sustainable development Summit in Delhi today. The theme, “Towards Copenhagen: an equitable and...
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Southern comfort
Wow, a lot has happened since the early 90s. We are in Varkala, a touristy beach town a few kilometres north of Trivandrun, Kerala. It is unrecognisable from my last visit here. In fact, the whole of...
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Why climate insurance is a bad idea
One of the fastest growing adaptation strategies pursued by developing countries is weather- and climate-related crop insurance. These are local or regional schemes being set up by NGOs, community...
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Rich in poverty
We follow our Mekong down the country until it shatters into a thousand rivulets, rapids and waterfalls at Si Phan Don (Four Thousand Islands). We stay in a sleepy village on Don Khone island and soon...
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Running out of stuff
London: A lot has been written about sustainability – it’s become fashionable in the past decade for everyone from marketeers and advertisers to policymakers, NGOs and world leaders to talk about the...
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