Common concerns

Flowering contentions

A Kenyan bid to enter the global flower market withers some of the North's near-monopoly profiteering

Water of contention

Political chicanery has plugged the revision of the US's Clean Water act

Born safe

Conning Kenyans

Japanese sponsors present Kenyan ngos with a fait accompli on a dam they don't want

Patent problems

An surge of gene patents in Europe threatens to overwhelm the law

Waiting for the fever

Pruning prawn farmers' ambitions

The fisheries department sets new rules for acquafarmers to avoid the recurrence of a viral devastation

Mainstreaming women

Sophisticated smuggling

Fishing curbs

Herbal fuel lights up doubt

India's herbal fuel travels from disbelief to certainty and finally rests in commotion

In love with the land

By shielding Utah lands from developmet, US President Clinton delighted environmentalists but infuriated most Utah officials who see coal mining …

What's ailing?

A WHO report on Southeast Asia blames poverty for the rot

Day of the tiger?

Allegations fly thick and fast, as a disputed report on saving the Indian tiger blames the government and NGOs for inaction

Trawler travails

A campaign against trawlers operating on a factory-like scale in the north Pacific has been launched by Greenpeace in the US

A bracketed meeting in Geneva

The latest meeting to decide upon funding for the ozone protocol ended up with the developed nations foiling the basic demands of the G-77 …

Freedom in the air

Saving drops for tomorrow

The sorry state of global water resources will surface in the sixth Stockholm Water Symposium

A Gangetic blunder

Woes of the world

It is mostly the preventable diseases which lead to fatal maladies due to negligence that hold our lives in stake, reveals the 1994 WHO report

None for the plunge

How is science doing?

"The engine of social and economic improvement" has recently been assessed globally by experts and scientists

Hello, lets save those trees

Protest calls spread far and wide against the logging of ancient rain orests by a US company for manufacturing its phone books

Letter of advice

Denying education to women may erode fundamental human solidarity, affecting social cohesion, says a United Nations report