Making profits for the West

While western investors are lining their pockets with Papua New Guinea's rich natural resources, all the government is getting in return is a …

Politics of punctuation

A comma gave rise to an argument over whether technology transfer should take place according to terms agreed upon at Rio or terms mutually …

The business of environment

ENVIRONMENT PROFILES OF EUROPEAN BUSINESS Dion Vaughan and Craig Mickle Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd, London Price: Not mentioned

Of large carnivores and humans

How does a civilisation relate to the environment? To find out, study its attitude towards large carnivores. Europeans have tried to dominate …

Barren continent

After the destruction of Europe's conifers, it took millions of years for the regeneration of forests

From the wick to the bulb

BOOK>> BRILLIANT, THE EVOLUTION OF ARTIFICIAL LIGHT • Jane Brox • Houghton Miffin Harcourt • `1,000

Myth of eternity

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Lightning activity in the European Eastern Alps doubled in 40 years. What does this indicate?

Higher frequency of thunderstorms that bring lightning have a link with global warming

Climate Emergency CoP 25: What you need to remember about Madrid summit

Land of Fire and Ice: Will the Grindavik eruption in Iceland be another Eyjafjallajokull?

For now, the eruption does not present a threat to life, according to the Icelandic government  

2022 European heatwave claimed over 61,000 lives, heat adaptation plans ineffective in reducing mortality: Study

With some 18,000 deaths, Italy saw the highest toll

Dirt cheap backup: Why Finland’s installation of the world’s 1st sand battery may be a game-changer

Sand batteries can ensure round-the-year availability of clean energy

Why Europe is the epicentre of COVID-19 protests

The reasons for the protests were wide-ranging

Transportation for pollination causing spread of deadly disease in bees

Researchers advocate keeping strict limits on the movement of bees

The rebuttals all around

India rebutts US and EUs attempts to make developing countries pay for climate finance

Pest-resistant maize

INSPECTION TIME

Fur ban

Kangaroos in jeopardy

The increasing demand for kangaroo meat threatens this marsupial native to Australia

Thinning ozone layer

Going nuclear?

Tony Blair shocks Europe by calling for a review of the UK's energy policy

Small ancestry

Europeans descended from just 50 African migrants

Blackmailed loan

Flight of extinction

European farmland birds are dying out due to highly mechanised agricultural practices

Credit facility

For European companies with excess emissions