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

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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

Estimate of world’s oldest water

The scientists estimate that there could be around 11 cubic million km of this water buried deep beneath the ground

Teaching citizens

Expedition to Baffin Island to raise awareness about global warming

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Great expectations from Bonn climate talks, but sticky issues need resolving

Drafting a universal climate change agreement enters critical stage of negotiations and streamlining of agreement text

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Backroom deals

Is US roping in India on the sly to subvert Kyoto Protocol?

White asbestos finds backers at Rotterdam Convention

Lawsuit against Canada for noncompliance of Kyoto protocol

Seal hunt kicks off amid protests

Canadians oppose a run-of-river hydel project

Romania deliberates anti-cyanide bill

The civil spring

Have an aggressive government and an overreaching judiciary curbed dissent?

World gets a yellow card

The Warsaw climate talks serve a grim warning to the world that inaction will cost, writes Chandra Bhushan as he leaves Warsaw just before the …

UN reports fall in development assistance from donor countries

Decline in aid will affect efforts to reach Millennium Development Goals by 2015

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Friends of the Earth sues Canada for not meeting Kyoto targets

Power games at UN climate talks

Climate talks unfolded amid high drama. Developing countries protested inaction by developed countries, civil society organisations walked out, …

With a pinch of salt

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

Canada, UK given Dodo Awards by civil society

The awards are given to countries that contribute to biodiversity loss