CHINA

A vital book

...says the President of India while receiving CSE's first report on global environmental negotiations

Salvaged sands

One-man commission's rebuff forces Goa government to jettison proposal to privatise beach

No food

Victory dance of the impotent

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

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

Salmon betrayed

All about agreements

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

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 …

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 …

Environmental activist Isidro Baldenegro killed in Mexico

This is the second killing of a Goldman Environmental Prize winner in less than a year

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 …

High on gas

Conspiracy to kill

Climatic loophole

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

Back where it belongs

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

Climate change new opportunity to renew old orders

Whither Green parties?

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

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 …

Before the flood

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 …

First birthday

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

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