Getting tough

The European Union comes down on seven governments for being lax on industrial pollution

Goa village wins compensation for fields scarred by mining

US court takes a global warming case despite Bush

Whose CARBON hypocrisy?

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

EU gets tough on environment crimes

In court

The verdict and after

The Supreme Court's decision, giving a go ahead to the Sardar Sarovar Project, has regenerated the debate.

Coronavirus spotlights the link between clean water and health

A key way to cut risk of falling sick is by washing your hands thoroughly and frequently. But what if you don’t have access to clean water?

Green politics

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

Saleli quarries ordered to close down

Gujarat charges pharma major for pollution

Court orders miners to compensate Goa farmers

USEPA should regulate GHGs, says US Supreme Court

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 …

MAIght of OECD

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

Battle for turf

If the South wants to protect its interests against the power of the Bretton Woods institutions and WTO, it will need its own, equally powerful forum

Polluter says' principle

GEF should have been a liability fund, rather than a 'guilt fund' set up by the North to make up for the global damage it had caused

Free, not fair

Does a country have the right to demand that its domestic standards on environmental protection be applicable to all countries?

Wood-headed proposal

After almost 10 years of fighting for or against a forest convention, there is not even a common view on why forests are under threat and what …

Toxic travellers

Developing countries are wary of the proposed treaty as chemicals like DDT are still used in many malaria-prone regions for vector control

Rio's stepchild

Northern countries still see desertification as a local problem caused by population pressures rather than international trade patterns and …

Biodiversity

To energise the biodiversity convention, the world will have to first deal with difficult countries like the US

Boiling point

Climate change negotiations get emotional because carbon dioxide emissions are closely related to individual lifestyles - and to national …

Nuclear madness

Pollution fallout: Japan pays dearly