A fishy story

A cloning dilemma

A decision to clone human beings raises questions on the safety and ethics of such projects

Playing knowledge games

Not quite the light side

Ecology over economics

Community Participation and Sustainable Forest Development Global Perspective

UNITED NATIONS

Windward shift

Global call to manage nitrogen

Global warming to hit India the worst in Asia by 2070

Over 9 billion across the world likely to be exposed to annual average temperatures experienced only in the hottest deserts 

Climate change: 14% coral reefs lost since 2010, says study

Corals reefs occupy less than 1% of the ocean floor but over one billion people benefit from them   

Global warming likely to affect maple syrup production by 2100: Study

Maple syrup season may begin one month earlier, while the sap sugar content will decrease by 0.7°Brix

Greenland’s ice melting rate increases four times in nine years

A research finds that this is a tipping point, which means global warming has brought summertime temperatures in Greenland close to melting point

Emission impossible

We need to change the way we farm, we eat and we think as agriculture is the largest source of non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions

Global carbon emission remained static in 2016, but India registered significant rise

Slowdown in emissions is attributed to decreased use of fossil fuels, especially coal, and increasing popularity of renewables

Rush for new development goals

UN works on agenda to follow millennium goals; civil society says it has been given little role

Prelude to extinction

Fishery experts say a global system of management is essential to prevent the extinction of the world's fish stocks, even as the number of …

Visionary

Blind terror: 80 per cent of the world's sightless are in the developing world, and the number will double by the turn of the century. Carl …

The road ahead

While the protocol has succeeded in lowering consumption of CFCs, developing countries still bear the cost burden of using and developing substitutes

Measure for measure

Some countries have failed to live up to commitments. But measures to ensure compliance to the protocol do not address the issue of North-South …

Foot in mouth disease

Only a sea change in farming techniques will help save the European agricultural sector from disasters like the foot-and-mouth disease

Indian science must stop merely aping West

Cynicism is perhaps the natural fallout of a long career within the government machinery. But when Yash Pal, one of the country's leading …

Option in Global Stocktake draft opens possibility of including India, China in list of historical emitters of greenhouse gases

Finance and coal phase out are other red lines in text for several developing countries, say experts

2023 in a blink: Climate, weather records that broke this year

Down To Earth recaps climate stories that broke records

The wisdom of the unlettered