Pesticide fatigue

Makes the busy bee a lazy pollinator

Getting the tan right

Removing chromium from effluent of leather units

Dying fields

The Green Revolution and use of high-yielding varieties has led to depletion of vital micronutrients

To prevent overkill

Medicinal values of marine life make it vulnerable to overexploitation. But it is now possible to artificially produce such qualities

Sweat and shiver

A review of climate studies projects what's in store: colder winters, hotter summers, drought, storms and lots worse

Deep sea blues

Bad news for the oceans, is bad news for the environment, the economy and humans

Cyclones, doubts and monsoon

An early monsoon breaks a few myths

Torn apart

Forest fragmentation can have detrimental effects on the flora and fauna, leading to a loss of biodiversity

Barbed wire isn't the answer

Fencing off biodiversity hot spots cannot protect species

Clipped wings

Modern farmland practices are leading to the extinction of many bird species in the UK

Climate on a skid

Global warming is likely to be far greater and faster than previous estimates, says the latest report of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction …

Sweets foiled by silver

A toxic conduit into the body

Rich bias

THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST Bjørn Lomborg · Cambridge University Press · Cambridge · 2001 · Pages: pp 515 &…

With a taste for metals

Made to order plants that eat pollutants

Our broken system of environmental clearance

Environmental impact assessment has become a convoluted exercise, designed for futility  

Environment (Protection) Act: 39 changes made to rules in 2 years of pandemic, shows report

Most relaxations & exemptions made for development projects through gazette notifications, office memorandums, orders

EIA notification 2020 delayed till September 7

A petition had been filed in court, asking the notification be translated in all 22 regional languages of the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution

Kenya’s environmental regulator ready to reconsider EIA processing fees due to financial crunch

The authority was forced to reduce staff during the pandemic

Making the right choice

The Supreme Court is sending wrong signals on post facto environmental clearances

Recently, the apex court has overlooked its own judgments and the underlying logic behind why there is a mechanism for environmental …

Expert committee meets to review projects in violation and grant environment clearance

A notification by the environment ministry gave a chance for violating projects to apply for environment clearance

Heavy-duty battery

SOUTH AFRICA

The real culprit

GREEN ECONOMICS— BEYOND SUPPLY AND DEMAND TO MEETING PEOPLE’S NEEDS·Edited by Molly Scott Cato and Miriam Kennett·Green …

The good coyotes