Panel to smooth North-South squabbles on GEF

A special committee is being set up to solve clashes between the industrialised and developing countries over national and international gains in …

Covering up with a plastic smile

The plastics industry in USA maintains its green image by deviously exporting used containers to developing countries for disposal, finds …

Death in the air

Environmental pollution could be responsible for 40 per cent of all deaths world-wide

The price of power

Nothing greasy about it

The increase in oil prices doesn't harm anyone

Digital medical library

Executed by convictions

WHO's acceptance of wrong information has resulted in the death of numerous children

Grain gain or drain?

Climate change causes famine

Vitaminimum

UNITED NATIONS

World Water Forum - Shallow talk

The Third World Water Forum took place recently in Japan to explore methods to optimally harness this vital resource, especially in developing …

German climate change initiative

Dying diversity: North profits from destruction of southern hotspots

Take more responsibility for climate

Road trauma

Historical burden

'Censuses mean little'

A POPULATION expert sharply critical of India's achievements in curbing population growth. A demographer with scant respect for the census. A …

Reviving proven ways of resource management

The state's attempts to stop environmental degradation in Bariadi district failed because they ignored the traditional knowledge of the people.

An unconventional study of the food-cycle

FOOD, HEALTH AND SURVIVAL IN INDIA AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Stuart Gillespie and Geraldine McNeill Publisher: Oxford University Press, Delhi Price:

Halons grow in India

Poisoned!

Cry the beloved country

The fight against AIDS in Africa hinges largely on drugs becoming more affordable in poor nations

End of innocence

Children exposed to DDT attain early puberty

Fixing cheap carbon

Genetically improved plants in Vietnam to help Australia meet its Kyoto target as cheaply as possible