Civil society groups appeal against sacrificing biosafety for biotech companies

 Urge governments to implement biosafety protocols and adopting cautious approach towards risky technologies like genetic engineering 

Unravelling Hindon’s pollution and pursuit of sustainable solutions 

Despite governmetal, judicial intervention, illegal dyeing units continue to operate & pollute the Hindon river 

Nagoya Protocol comes into force

The biodiversity protection pact will ensure that benefits of natural resources and their commercial derivatives are shared with local communities

'Biodiversity authority needs autonomy'

Balakrishna Pisupati was the first biodiversity expert to head India's National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) and had more than six months to go …

Aphid, thrips threaten vegetable crops, pulses as February temperatures soar across north India

Ideal weather conditions for pest attacks unusually early in the year

Karnataka villagers suspect biodiversity register

Reluctant funding

Compromise on resources salvages CBD conference; marine protection gets big boost

World biodiversity day this year focuses on islands

In the last 500 years around 80 per cent of vertebrate extinctions have been on islands

Giraffe, 3 tigers die in Patna zoo

Authorities fail to provide treatment on time

Same-sex marriages: Reproductive and sexual rights shouldn’t be different based on sex and gender

Denying the right of marriages and a family over homosexuality is a gross violation of human rights  

Elusive cause

High yields in Andhra's pesticide-free village

'Plastics should be classified as hazardous'

Current rate of production may add 33 billion tonnes of plastic by 2050; classification can help reduce this amount to four billion tonnes, says …

Trail of a $500 m gene

How a rare African algae collected by a French academic turns into a commercial bonanza for an equity firm in Hong Kong. Are there any benefits …

Double trouble

A deadly moth and a fly create havoc

Kandy gets beauty treatment

Sri Lanka employs aquatic plants to clean up its heritage lake

Agroecology is the only way

Problem

Drought fails to crush a Bundelkhand village

Last look: Consensus on Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework draft remains elusive during final pre-COP15 meet

Not enough progress made at 5th Open-ended Working Group on Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Can Montreal help communities: Here is what to expect from COP15

The fate of biodiversity hangs in balance as negotiators congregate in Montreal to discuss Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

COVID-19 lockdown was a breather for Rajasthan’s lakes, rivers: Report

Low human intervention, stalled tourism helped improve quality of water bodies in the state 

Act of omission

Public institutions do not seek permission from the biodiversity authority before genetically manipulating crops

Before the last trumpet

Captive elephants of Kerala suffer because there is no proper policy for their management and welfare

MoEF failed to protect environment: Public Accounts Committee

Forest cover of India is just 21 per cent against the target of 33 per cent set by Planning Commission for 2012