Global food companies fail to ensure deforestation-free beef

No initiative by top global brands to check deforestation in South America, finds study

Venezuela food crisis, fallout of a mismanaged economy

A whopping 87 per cent of Venezuelans say they don't have money to buy enough food

Brazil forest fire threatens local tribe

Loggers have been accused of starting fires to drive away the indigenous people

People protest

People from nine Latin American cities come together to raise their voice against pollution

Extreme weather is outpacing even the worst-case scenarios of our forecasting models

Hurricane Otis gave Acapulco, Mexico almost no time to prepare

ST LUCIA

UNCCD COP14: Desertification, land degradation hit poor hardest

Climate change drives migration but many can’t even move out: Report 

Hike in soy production in Brazil linked to higher child cancer deaths, finds study

Notes rise in pesticide use with soy expansion; timely mitigation mitigated link between expansion and cancer incidences

Want to eat fish tomorrow? Halt climate change, overfishing today

Stocks could drop by a third if no action taken 

Worst yellow fever outbreak in decades kills hundreds of rare monkeys in Brazil

Over 600 monkeys have died in rainforest region with no provision for vaccinating them

First cases of avian flu found in Antarctic region

Researchers identify species and areas most vulnerable to spread of infection

A complement, not a substitute

Cash transfer is effective only if basic services are in place

Sao Paulo

Lethal messenger

El Niño brings deadly disease to South America

Growing tension

City scan

How happy are people living in cities?

Green eye in the sky

A voyage into space for a three-dimensional monitoring of the polluted environment

Scientists characterise a natural pathogenic fungi to help save eucalyptus forests from devastating pest

Eucalyptus snout beetle can cause great damage, but fungi could be used to develop a bio-pesticide for sustainable forestry

Science and Technology - Briefs

Rains for Mexico

Mexico City uses technology to make its own wind and rain. But the sceptics are not impressed

Expect more ‘bomb cyclones’, courtesy climate change

Severe rain and snow lay seige to large parts of United States, Canada 

Shrimp farms vs mangroves

Horse mystery

History in the stump

Ancient tree stumps provide picture of world's climate

Grim reminder

A fleeting reappearance of plague exposes India's lack of preparedness