Building green citizens

Heady days ahead?

Will cannabis be rethought fit for medical use?

Dry run

The number of Pacific salmons that return to their birth place to spawn is decreasing at a dramatic rate. Despite efforts by the Canadian …

HOME AT LAST

After more than 30 years of struggle, the Inuit people of Canada are given more autonomy and the right to self-determination

Heavy levy

US adopts a tough stand on softwood imports from Canada, imposing a 27 per cent duty on the imports

No consensus

The UN Forum on Forest's fourth meet ended half a day ahead of schedule, raising doubts on the convention's ability to frame an agenda. Clifford …

The dirty dozen

Twelve of the deadliest toxins known to humans were recently the focus of a debate between 92 nations seeking ways and means to curb their use

A site of global struggle

The Kyoto Protocol is part of the 21st century world order: save it

Oceans may run out of fish population in 50 years

Fish might die in the next fifty years, or will they?

G8 and tragedy of Africa

Rich nations are forcing African states to change laws to facilitate private investment in agriculture in a replay of colonial adventurism

A sticky label

US biotech industry gears up to play dirty in Europe

Fruitful deliberations

Two global meetings chart a course for weeding out biopiracy

Arctic rush driven by desire to control hydrocarbon deposits, shipping routes

Predatory EU pacts

EU is pushing India and Canada to sign free trade agreements that will hurt their generic drugs—and the outrage is global

Bad chemistry

Asbestos, agribusiness get a leg up

The civil spring

Have an aggressive government and an overreaching judiciary curbed dissent?

With a pinch of salt

Fast food can be made less salty, finds research. But companies refuse to do so

GM crops: Here to stay

The Indian government is dead keen on GM crops. But what about a policy first?

Pesticides in our food

There is never any end to learning. And so, surprises. We have learnt, over 20 years, that environmental governance in India is lackadaisical. …

A treaty too many

India is learning that there is a heavy price to be paid for the large number of bilateral investment treaties, or BITs, it has signed in the …

Sunshine sector loses sheen

About 40 kilometres from Delhi, in the bustling real estate market of Noida-Greater Noida, lies the biggest irony that the renewable energy …

Future compromised

The Earth Summit was a historical opportunity to set the world on the correct development trajectory. Negotiators from 191 countries came …

Taking the issue Due North

Death Inside The Factory Gates

Asbestos makes homes, but it also causes cancer. The "indestructible" substance is increasingly being cast aside by developed countries,…

Ignore US bullying on IPRs

Countries should not be stampeded into changing laws by the USTR's arbitrary Special 301 report