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UN Security Council steps into climate change

Calls attention to potential threat of climate on international peace

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Adopt manual scavengers act, human rights commission tells states

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The loss of our breeds

Buy an Indian breed from Australia

Nature cure from India

Cipla's audacious move

Why generics maker Cipla has asked government to revoke Novartis patent on respiratory ailment drug

Monsanto does it again

The biotech seed giant sues a farmer for planting unbranded commodity seeds bought in the open market for patent infringement

The natco-pfizer test

Natco’s demand for a voluntary licence from Pfizer will establish how well the compulsory licence process works in India

Race to kill kyoto protocol

As Copenhagen nears, Obamas America sees new hope Yes, we can...dump climate multilateralism. In Bangkok, most developed countries joined the …

US Matters

The world is already celebrating the US' emissions reduction framework. Our research shows the US climate change action plan is neither ambitious …

No evidence of policy-driven fall in US emissions post-2005, says new book

'Capitan America', a comprehensive analysis of the US climate action plan, says US INDCs are neither equitable nor ambitious  

World headed for water crises by 2040

Two studies suggest immediate change in the water use by power sector to avoid global drought

News 360°

World shrinks for oysters

December In Copenhagen

A cosmetic leap of faith

Industry ignores perils of using nanotechnology in beauty products

EIA A nice formality

Gunning for green tech

US continues to target India over its intellectual property regime, especially in pharma, green tech sectors

Memories of Agent Orange

Phulmai's walk - a day in the life of a headloader

Headloaders - collectors of fuelwood in India's woodlands. On the one hand, seen as forest destroyers, on the other, they are the sole support of …

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Coal politics in an unequal world

BP quits conservative lobby group ALEC

It is the latest multinational to exit following criticism of ALEC’s rejection of climate change impact