Niger issues new permits for uranium mining in Sahara

Protest against mining plans in Q'oyillur Riti Sanctuary

UN lifts 3-year ban on Liberian timber exports

Riots over food security in Burkina Faso

Waterbullying to sink 20 villages

Lessons from Kakarapalli

Cheated for bauxite

Andhra Pradesh circumvents all regulations to mine bauxite from tribal land

Battle for the Internet

As the Internet becomes the public square and the marketplace of our world, it is increasingly becoming a contested terrain. Its potential for …

Private vehicles eating into scare public land

Private vehicles are clogging city streets, as they grow at a frightening pace. Hidden subsidies help park them on scarce public land and …

Blunder 999

Kerala is trapped by its promise to host Tamil Nadu’s Mullaperiyar dam for a millennium

Of 'man-eating tigers' and ‘tiger-eating men'

While reigniting debate on human-wildlife conflicts, Uttarakhand High Court’s order on man-eating big cats leaves many questions unanswered …

Elephantine block

A wall to keep elephants at bay ends up alienating people in an Uttarakhand village

Maharashtra digs trenches to keep away elephants

Cyanide kills elephants

Poaching led to record rhino deaths in Kaziranga

News 360° - Briefs

Kenya's Ogiek tribe fights government to return home

IN SHORT

Iraq wants treaty on sharing river waters

Argentina scraps deal with UK to share oil found off Falkland Islands

Displacement due to logging in Peru

Concerns over smuggling of Zimbabwean rough diamonds to South frica

Israel chokes off chlorine supply to Gaza

South Asia

Barmer farmers protest Jindal power project