Biodiversity & ethics

BIOTECHNOLOGY, BIOSAFETY AND BIODIVERSITY: SCIENTIFIC AND ETHICAL ISSUES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT·editors Sivramiah Shantharam and Jane …

Religion & environment

BIOTECHNOLOGY, BIOSAFETY AND BIODIVERSITY: SCIENTIFIC AND ETHICAL ISSUES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT·editors Sivramiah Shantharam and Jane …

Mission impossible?

The sheer scope of the biodiversity action plan may militate against its successful implementation

SOUTH AFRICA

Environmental business

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Colouring plants

Mythila painting is an innovative media that contain powerful messages of conservation

Discovery of India

Anil Agarwal delivers his acceptance speech for the Norman Borlaug Award 2001

Road maze

The controversy around the Kandi road through the Corbett Tiger Reserve

Ramsar is not a strong, strict and rigid convention

India has listed 16 wetlands under the Ramsar sites, but with no policies, knowledge or interest shown by the authorities, proper management is …

Memories of a protest

SILENT VALLEY WHISPERS OF REASON·Kerala Forest Department·St Joseph’s Printing Press·pp 421·Price not mentioned

The real culprit

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

Humans first

EQUATION FOR LIFE·Edited by George Cheriyan·Published by: Books for change·110p; Price: 120

Restore ecosystems or suffer a lower standard of living

Andre F Clewell , a US-based botanist and plant taxonomist, has for the past 15 years been working on ecological restoration. This relatively new …

Beware of Policymakers

PEOPLE, PLANTS AND PATENTS: THE IMPACT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ON BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION, TRADE AND RURAL SOCIETY·Crucible group&…

A bushful of medicine

Seabuckthorn, a plant with numerous medicinal properties, grows wild in India. Rural communities are the losers

Eyeing the coastlines

Further dilution of the rules safeguarding the Indian coastal ecosystem has just been proposed. Under the guise of providing land to poor …

EU climate law sets direction but lacks urgency: WWF

We need a climate GPS system, but this proposal is only a compass, it said

Nature's invaluable services

>> What has Nature Done for Us, by Tony Juniper, Profile Books, Rs 917

An army of mad trees

J K Tiwari and Asad R Rahmani profile a tree that is changing the face of Kutch

Ecopoetry is artistic resistance, says K Satchidanandan

In a conversation with Down To Earth, the bilingual poet speaks profoundly on the capitalist idea of development and consumerist madness …

20 years of talks later, half the Earth’s surface area to have binding environment treaty

United Nations members negotiate instrument under UN Convention on Law of the Sea to conserve, sustainably use marine biological diversity of …

Give rivers their rights, activists tell IUCN World Conservation Congress

Only 37% of rivers longer than 1,000 km still flow freely due to dams being built on them

Uttarakhand lets in: Migrants bring city, drop sustainability

Scarcity, conservation, equitable and fair use of limited resources does not apply to them.

Canadian scientists develop new antibiotic that prevents cell division

Older antibiotics like penicillin kill bacteria by preventing their cell wall from being built in the first place

CITES CoP 2019: Otters given highest protection from trade

Asian small-clawed as well as smooth-coated otters have been included in Appendix I of CITES