Oriental Nicety denied entry into India

Supreme Court cites Basel Convention on trans-boundary movement of hazardous waste to stop toxic-laden ship, infamous for the Alaska oil spill of 1989

Onion growers blockade highway; demand revoking export ban

Consumers likely to face the brunt

Pristine Tasmania faces GM threat

Opium industry lobbies to lift moratorium on GM farming

A sticky label

US biotech industry gears up to play dirty in Europe

Nepal needs SEZ booster for its floundering economy

Left wing parties prove a major hindrance in enacting SEZ law

Can endosulfan be exported?

Supreme Court asks panel to explore possibilities of disposing of the pesticide  

Government rolls back ban on cotton exports

Commerce ministry had imposed ban on March 5 saying 9.4 million bales have already been shipped out of the country as against estimated exports …

Will India ratify the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Protocol?

 Protocol needs serious inter-ministerial deliberations, says MoEF official

Rajasthan Assembly passes camel Bill to stop slaughter and restrict migration

Experts says the Bill, which is intended to protect camels, does not address concerns of camel keepers

The small big polluter

Small-scale industries: Where regulations are meaningless and pollution control an unaffordable luxury. Can they leapfrog to cost-effective …

Have technology, will survive

A green agenda based on the paradigm of pollution prevention can rescue the small-scale industry

Mere plans

Government proposes. Industry disposes. Programmes for cleaning up have very largely gone by the wayside

The small big polluter

Resource crunch and poor regulatory processes have made small-scale industries the pariahs of India's environment

Curious case of seaweed

AquAgri pays highest sum in royalty but benefits do not reach people

'Organic cotton production and consumption should become a mass movement'

Vivek and Juli Cariappa are Krishi Pandit awardees and dedicated organic farmers based in H D Kote taluk in Mysore. They have been practising …