Keeping E-Waste at bay

China imposes restrictions on electronic junk imports

Fait accompli

Even a 'limited' Indo-Pak war would see three million deaths

Pact under pressure

South Asia

Slushy development

Twentieth century was Pakistan's wettest

Industrial waste causes havoc in Karachi

Pakistan feels the heat of toxicity

In Court

Wajihuddin Ahmed on envionmental issues in Pakistan

DOUBLE STANDARDS

South Asia

Villages in Pakistan's Sindh losing their fight with climate change

A survey has found communities to be highly vulnerable with very limited adaptive capacity

Future shocks

Devastating earthquakes are waiting to strike India

RIVER CONTAMINATION

Bad to worse

Power talks

Iran reverses stance on tri-nation gas pipeline

Panchayat minister wants control of urban local bodies

Pakistan mulls ban on e-waste import

Environmentalists endorse it; traders oppose  

From glacier melting to rise in glacial lakes, eastern Himalaya most hit by climate change

Among the 25,614 glacial lakes identified in five major river basins of Hindu Kush Himalayas, Brahmaputra Basin has the highest number of glacial …

Water harvesting

Participants from five countries, including India, discuss ways to improve water harvesting systems

Fishery degradation in Pakistan: A poverty-environment nexus?

The number of fishing vessels in Pakistani coastal waters has been steadily increasing but the fish catches steadily decreasing. Press reports …

Dictating terms

The US forces its agenda upon other member states at the fifth review conference of the bioweapons convention

Forest grants

South Asia

South Asia