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 …

Whose right(s)?

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

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

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

US presidential candidates' take on climate change

Climate logjam

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

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

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

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 …

Mighty clash

Negotiating the future

The upcoming climate negotiations at The Hague may turn out to be the most crucial till now

New York mayor announces plans to make city green

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