Moscow introduces GM-free label

Sri Lanka clamps down on civil society groups

Activists say attack on freedom of expression is indicative of a deteriorating democracy

Biodiversity meet begins; India takes over presidency of CBD

CoP 11 will decide future course of action plans to meet Aichi Targets

Ban on stem cell patents which involve destroying human embryos

Researchers call it regressive step, ethicists happy

Adani’s coal mine acquisition in Australia under scanner

Company failed to submit environmental track records to Australian environment ministry

Haryana farmers protest open field trials of GM corn

Agricultural university in Kurukshetra is conducting trials for Monsanto

Questions over EU plan to label organic food 'GM free'

More forest diversions likely in Singrauli

Greenpeace report says pollution from coal-fired thermal plants not considered while allowing mining in coal belt

Monsanto told to quit India

Farmers from 20 states to present national flag made from non-Bt organic cotton to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for Independence Day

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Shell’s Arctic drilling support ship heads back to dock

Hole in the icebreaker vessel’s hull to be repaired at Oregon, US

Civil society groups urge Australia to adopt zero-carbon emission target by 2050

The country is the thirteenth largest emitter in the world, with one of the highest per capita emissions

Coal-fired power stations carry heavy health costs in South Africa

Emissions from power plants causes at least 2,200 premature deaths every year, says Greenpeace

Varied visions for new climate agreement in Lima

As developed and developing countries continue to disagree over key elements of the new climate deal in the works, civil society groups suggest …

India to double renewable energy capacity in 5 yrs: PM

Clean energy ministerial meet expected to evolve financing mechanisms

Prominent Indian tea brands contain pesticides: Greenpeace

Study finds 67 per cent of tested samples of packed tea leaves contained banned pesticide DDT; some samples had acutely poisonous monocrotophos

To bring back bees, European commission to impose temporary ban on neonicotinoid pesticide use in farms

Move to be reviewed after two years

Why climate negotiators should look at wind energy prospects

Wind power could meet 26 per cent of global electricity demand and help save 6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide annually by the end of mid-century,…

World lost 8 per cent of its forests in past 14 years: study

UN plans to restore 150 degraded forests by 2020

India’s FCRA does not conform to international standards: UN Special Rapporteur

The restriction may prove detrimental to the advocacy group engaged in critical human rights work, government accountability and those …

Legal case against Norway for allowing new oil exploration in the Arctic

The government’s decision could lead to the drilling of seven new exploratory wells in the Barents Sea in 2017

HSBC forced to safeguard Indonesia's rainforests

A probe by international non-profit Greenpeace linked Europe’s largest bank to companies destroying rainforests

India has three of the world’s 50 nitrogen emission hotspots

The latest Greenpeace analysis finds areas in Delhi-NCR, UP, MP and Odisha as the biggest contributors of nitrogen pollution in India

Deep sea mining threatens global waters, seabed authority lets it: Greenpeace

The international non-profit raises concerns on the International Seabed Authority’s role and competence

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