Jobs and the environment

Will he beat around the bush?

He may not have a clean environmental track record. But as president, George W Bush will have to tread carefully

Forgetting science

Talking in riddles

A recent protocol on compensation to victims of hazardous waste permits the generators to go scot-free

Climate logjam

After wrecking the climate talks in the Hague, the US-led coalition refuses to participate in further negotiations in Oslo

Courting controversy

Ram Naik passes a death sentence for Dahanu's fragile ecology

Look who's talking!

The president of the world's most polluting country blames India for global warming

Food safety

In the wake of genetically-modified food flooding the Indian markets, 25 farmers' groups call for a 10-year moratorium on such food

Book review: Profound primer

Providing a good text is the primary step, now that environmental studies have become a scheduled subject at the graduate level in all …

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (June 22-27, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal through the …

How important are climate issues in South African elections

When climate adaptation is not the mainstream political agenda, driving the South Africa’s National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy will …

This UN report shows green laws remain in books

Poor implementation of environmental laws is now a global problem, says the report that demystifies the reasons behind the failure

Forget castes and politics, let’s focus on our rights and space: citizens of Karnataka

Several citizen groups in the state, which is going to polls this year, have drafted manifestos and asked political parties to include them in theirs

Status quo

Political cooperation at multilateral organisations for the preservation of international peace and security will continue to be biased heavily …

A political drought

Green politics

Is your government signing away your future rights to the world's natural resources?

Beware the modified wolf

Will bureaucrats choose to throw farmers and ecology to the mercy of multinational corporations by preparing the way for cultivation of …

International pressure and the civil society

Mighty clash

Strangers in their own land

The final notification of the Great Himalayan National Park has jeopardised the livelihood of a tribe of migratory pastoralists. It has also …

Shawls, an antelope and the law

The question is not just of farming chiru. It is about the policy that a country should have towards wildlife conservation, forest dwelling …

Whose responsibility is it anyway?

Two years after the Supreme Court directed the setting up of two independent fuel testing centres in Delhi, one is yet to be commissioned

Finally, both BJP and Congress manifestos talk climate change

A long way to go, but at least a start for India and its people

MAIght of OECD

A no-holds-barred treaty on investments would hand over the world on a platter to MNCs

Failing to come clean

It is unclear whether the Indian government supports the transfer of nuclear energy technology under the climate convention's Kyoto Protocol