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

US sets mercury emission limits

India still far from setting standards for toxic pollutants from power plants

How useful is genome decoding?

Scientists decode pigeon pea at the cost of Rs 11 crore  

Changing basic nature

Countries move from labs to seas to study the implications of ocean acidification

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Patent hypocrisies of US

American business lobbies are spreading falsehoods about India’s patent policies—and glossing over their double standards

The endgame at Cancun

No climate for cleantech

Most of the clean energy innovations are with just six rich countries and hardly any technology is coming to developing nations

Climate inaction

‘There could be a racist backlash to the current anti-racism movements’

Race science has been used to justify colonial occupation, slavery, genocide; it became so ingrained that we still live with its devastating …

What do science-based targets to limit climate change really look like?

Commitment to climate justice demands that rich countries make deeper cuts to their emissions than merely equalising per-capita emissions by 2030

Dangers ahead at WTO

The trade facilitation agreement paves the way for fresh pressures on developing countries such as tariff cuts on industrial products

Great Man's distortion

How we came to fear saturated fat

World population touches 7 billion

Ten billionth baby likely by end of the century if population growth continues at current rate

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Transport costs