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

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

What's ailing?

A WHO report on Southeast Asia blames poverty for the rot

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

None for the plunge

Neem: the patent serial

Standard tests

Toolmaker crows

Wilted concerns

A recently proposed environmental evaluation smacks of evasive tactics

Brazil backs dubious project

Antarctic odessey

Positive move

Kerala to set up biodiversity board

Nicole, the prehistoric

A dealer of rare fossils says he has found a dinosaur egg containing an intact embryo

Exploring the deep

An Indian scientist was part of an expedition to explore a new world on the ocean floor

Paper tigers

It is now the turn of the tiger to be saved by legislators

Alive, but a hostage

NGO leader Sanjoy Ghosh, abducted by Assamese separatists, is reported to be alive

Poor gift