Remembering Anil Agarwal: Cold truths of global warming

Today is the death anniversary of Anil Agarwal, the founder of Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth. On June 30, 1998, he wrote …

Victory dance of the impotent

It is sickening to see the Union home minister rejoice when dam oustees despair

Salmon betrayed

Devil quotes the scriptures

The absence of a clear position on the transfer of nuclear energy technology under the clean development mechanism amounts to doublespeak

A watery affair

The real issues of global water management took a backseat as crisis-mongering and anti-dam protests hijacked the Second World Water Forum at …

All about agreements

THE IMPLEMENTATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENTS, THEORY AND PRACTICE·Edited by DG Victor, K Raustiala and …

High on gas

Conspiracy to kill

Whose right(s)?

When laws make out laws

Everybody's a loser. Forest guards die for laws that cannot be defended. Poor people get exploited. Veerappan rules the jungle. Sandalwood trees …

Before the flood

Whither Green parties?

Voters' support is likely to remain a protest against major European parties

Back where it belongs

India emerges victorious from a legal wrangle with the US over the patenting of neem

Playing with facts

An affidavit filed in the Supreme Court by the Indian automaker TELCO suggests a misinterpretation of the WHO's views on air pollution. The …

Climatic loophole

Sinks can now be potentially identified as the most dangerous loophole for the environmental integrity of the Kyoto Protocol

Wishful thinking

The finance minister's budget speech has come and gone. As analysts sit down to shred it to bits, Down To Earth looks at a wish list of …

In Parliament on July 19, 2016

Here’s a round-up of environmental and developmental issues that were discussed and debated in both houses of parliament

Map shows India at top of climate violence

Conflicts related to water management appear highest in India with 59 cases, followed by conflicts in fossil fuels and climate justice

A wake-up call

Britain's worst ever flood in 50 years could be a result of global warming

Sweet hostage

Dutch minister Jan Pronk pays obeisance to the choleric demands of the US Senate

Elite in an ivory tower

First birthday

Although setting up of the EPA did result in policies to control pollution, political interference has blunted its effectiveness

Battling climate change

Technologies exist to arrest global warming. But the political will to implement them is missing

Noise and a sane voice

Whose CARBON hypocrisy?

Should Northern groups campaign to stop fossil fuel funding in the South?