Greetings!
We are pleased to announce that from this week  we will be presenting to  you a whole page covering crucial environmental issues from across the nation and the world.
As is becoming clear with global warming and climate change, none of us can remain untouched by what happens in any remote corner of the world. We are connected inextricably. We are, above our nationalities, from one planet. The onus is on all of us to keep this blue planet breathing easy.
Today, as never before there is a need to be vigilant on the health of our environment. Industrial interests are the priorities of most nations that are vying for a double figure GDP. Not everyone is aware that a sick planet will soon stop yielding the resources we sorely need for our development plans.
Whether it is the quality of our water or air, our nutrient depleted soils or warming atmosphere and oceans, these are linked to our actions. If we care about the world we leave behind us, there is not much time left to repair the damage and check any further destruction.
This is the time to take the environment as a part and parcel of our growth plans. For instance, the story carried alongside, on a road cutting across a wildlife refuge in Alaska, is something which echoes elsewhere too, even in our midsts! Don’t we have roads running through our sanctuaries and national parks? Have we cared to think about the impact of this on the wildlife? Do we care at all whether in our race to gather more material comforts, we run down every other species?
Even if we do not care much for plants and animals and biodiversity is merely a fashionable word, it would be wise to keep one’s own welfare in mind before plundering the environment.
We at Deccan Herald recognise the value of preserving our environment. This page is but one way to salute the planet and pledge to help save it.
Editor