Looking for information on how the Kyoto Protocol can rob you of your rights? Images of kunds in Rajasthan? Articles on Hong Kong's chicken flu? Specialists on dryland farming? Click on the award winning website that serves you environment with a Southern perspective

The recently started Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Website was awarded the Best of Asia Pacific Web Award for 1998 in the Nature and Environment category. The award, established in 1996, covers 16 categories and has considerable viewers' input with over a million hits a year. The CSE website is one of its kind in Asia, making information on science and environment from the Southern world easily available to surfers at the touch of a button. International researchers can access information on happenings in the developing world, as reported in the online fortnightly, Down To Earth.

The entire library of the Centre, easily one of the best of its kind in Asia, has been made available online, through a thesaurus-based keyworded search. The library includes books, journals, articles, documents, images and videos on environment - a result of 16 years of intensive work. A detailed database of resource persons from around the world, specialists in the field of environment, is available on the website. Organisations and a directory of specialists can be accessed by feeding in either the location of choice, or the field of study.

The website also makes available the CSE - Down To Earth Feature Service, a collection of well researched articles by experts on science and environment free of charge, as an introductory offer to surfers.

The activities of the CSE campaigns on Air Pollution, Water, Biodiversity, Forestry, Wildlife and Climate are regularly reported on the website, along with Press Releases and action points. Also listed are the CSE publications, which can be ordered online.

The website, like other CSE communication material, is written and presented in a lighthearted, easily readable manner, amply illustrated with cartoons and visuals. But for adults and children who still find it heavy, there is always Gobar Times, a children's supplement that presents the many disciplines of environmental management to the uninitiated.