Across Africa, water conflict threatens security, health and the environment

Once conflicts escalate, they are hard to resolve and can have a negative impact on water security, creating vicious cycles of conflict

Sub-Saharan Africa shows the way: A quarter of parliamentarians are women

In Mali, female representation in parliament increased by 19.5 percentage points; Burundi with 41% women parliamentarians in the upper house, …

How artificial intelligence systems could threaten democracy

The advent of digital repression is profoundly affecting the relationship between citizen and state

General Elections 2019: Science in polls, from feel 'good' to feel 'strong'

With the Balakot episode and later the ASAT declaration, the ruling party has brought ‘muscular science’ into the spotlight alongside …

Remembering Anil Agarwal: Cold truths of global warming

Today is the death anniversary of Anil Agarwal, the founder of Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth. On June 30, 1998, he wrote …

Why farmers don't have electoral clout

Although farmers vote at least as much, if not more than industrial workers or urban middle classes, elections are not fought around farmers' issues

Baptised by fire

Wildlife saviour Richard Leakey, hailed as messiah by some, and hated as hell's messenger by others, is now in the thick of Kenyan politics

Intrepid non-learners

Indian politicians travel on public money—for what they can learn from the click of a mouse

Law of no returns

Kings of forests

The control of Naxalites over forests is total and overwhelming

High on gas

Conspiracy to kill

Whose right(s)?

When laws make out laws

Everybody's a loser. Forest guards die for laws that cannot be defended. Poor people get exploited. Veerappan rules the jungle. Sandalwood trees …

Forest war

Naxalism started as a movement against land alienation. Today it has become a popular movement against natural resource alienation, …

Back where it belongs

India emerges victorious from a legal wrangle with the US over the patenting of neem

Climate change new opportunity to renew old orders

Playing with facts

An affidavit filed in the Supreme Court by the Indian automaker TELCO suggests a misinterpretation of the WHO's views on air pollution. The …

Climatic loophole

Sinks can now be potentially identified as the most dangerous loophole for the environmental integrity of the Kyoto Protocol

Before the flood

Putin’s 2 min

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Has anything changed?

Quincy remains an exception. The old story continues at the national level

Community efforts

In which the people of Quincy got their act together

Troubled history

Local communities have always been stuck in no man's land in the US

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