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India granted 'observer' status in Arctic Council

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CoP-8: Nothing's brewing

For a fortnight, 1,456 delegates from 167 countries sat in conference halls, attended plenary sessions and roundtables, and sized each other up …

Look before you leap

Denmark has for the first time introduced a law relating to the transfer of polluting technologies to other countries

Bridge to nowhere

Sweden and Denmark, two of the world's most eco-friendly countries, compromise on environment to go ahead with the construction of Europe's …

Bridge over troubled waters

Sweden's environment minister resigns over the government's plan to build a bridge-and-tunnel link with Denmark

Mammograms linked to overdiagnosis, overtreatment of breast cancer: study

Women are unnecessarily treated with anti-cancer therapies, including chemotherapy, for tumours that would never have caused a health problem

Playing dice with development

Like all such meetings before, the UN World Summit in Copenhagen had to address the needs of the commoner, the bedrock of all nations

Much heat generated over energy tax proposal

The proposed energy tax has run into heavy weather in Europe, despite strong backing from Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.

Bum deal at the summit

A lot of sound and fury signifying nothing: that was the Social Development battlefield at Copenhagen

Denmark considering complete coal phase-out by 2025

In spite of high performance in carbon reduction, country’s dependence on coal is still high

Identity crisis

Rightwing parties provide an illusion of certainty: the one thing that many Europeans reeling under new pressures are hungrily groping for

EU, first climate neutral continent by 2050, needs 60% reduction in emissions by 2030

Negotiations need to identify concrete hooks to bring every country to the table and agree on the target collectively

There is more to declining bird numbers than just climate change

Researchers say one should not jump to conclusions about bird physiology when assessing the effects of climate change on the avian population

IPCC to release vital report ahead of climate talks

Last in the series under fifth assessment report, it will be one last big appeal from science before the negotiations begin for a final climate …

Microbial carriers

Microorganisms can enhance the movement of carcinogenic hydrocarbons in soil, making them degrade at a quicker rate

Detergents threaten India's waterbodies

Narinder K Kaushik, professor emeritus at the University of Guleph, Ontario, Canada, speaks to Nitin Sethi on the dangers of phosphate content …

Aqua guard

Denmark introduces an advanced system to moniter oxygen depletion and waste dumping in seawater

Focus on pledges

Accountability issue set to take centrestage at the upcoming CoP-8 (Read full article)

Denmark imposes fat tax

The surcharge will be levied on food items containing more than 2.3 per cent saturated fat.

Blowing in the wind

Civil society cannot distance itself from the phenomenon of right-wing parties finding their way to the top in Europe

Race to kill kyoto protocol

As Copenhagen nears, Obamas America sees new hope Yes, we can...dump climate multilateralism. In Bangkok, most developed countries joined the …

Mithi is a river, not real estate

Jagdish Gandhi wears many hats. A historian writing a book on Mumbai’s colonial past, he was among those responsible for restoring the …