Extreme climate can halve crop yields: Study

Global research quantifies impact of climate extremes on staple crops maize, spring wheat, rice and soybeans

Metal meltdown

The global crash in aluminium prices, triggered by overproduction in China, is forcing Indian companies to shut down operations. The solution may …

Budget 2017 Analysis with Sunita Narain

Centre for Science and Environment and Down to Earth analysed the 2017 Budget by Arun Jaitley. The major takeaway is that there is very little …

Paying nature's bill

Tax reforms, which would penalise the unlimited use of nature, are fast becoming an imperative part of preparing national budgets, prodded by the …

India’s food self-sufficiency is conditional to drought-hit districts

For over 40 years India’s net sown areas remain the same; drought-hit areas have to increase production to match food demand

More bite, less to chew

The most controversial aspect of the food security law is the restructuring of the public distribution system to cover an unprecedented 67 per …

'Fossil fuel subsidies should be deemed as negative climate finance'

Experts cite examples of many countries which have begun diverting fossil fuel subsidies towards development projects

Look at the sun

Government has made half-baked efforts to promote solar pumps, a cost-effective irrigation tool

Study identifies genes linked to obesity

The results could provide new insights into weight-loss therapies and help prevent metabolism-associated diseases

‘Manipulate market, lower drug prices’

In times of rising costs of healthcare compounded by shortage of funds, UNITAID, a UN organisation, was set up in 2006 to improve access to life-…

Difficult to digest

After much debate, the Cabinet cleared the food security bill. Will it really ensure food for every Indian?

Organic farming: Reaping mixed benefits

Contradictory state of affairs in two Uttaranchal villages highlights both potential and obstacles of organic farming. The paradox has cropped up …

Countdown to Cancun: Agricultural subsidies

why should four per cent of the agricultural workforce (mostly affluent) in high-income countries reap the rich harvest of an international trade …

India’s rainfall patterns changing drastically, say Stanford scientists

Longer dry spells and wetter wet spells could spell doom for the Indian agriculture, they warn

Pay and take

A High Powered Committee on efficient allocation of natural resources and telecom spectrum puts market above people

Wind break ends

Centre wants to withdraw sops for wind energy sector; offers an incentive to improve performance

Looking for the right bait

Developing countries like India need to be prepared for multilateral negotiations. This is certainly true of the fishing economy

Wind loses power

Tamil Nadu has 40 per cent of the wind energy capacity installed in India, yet the state is reeling from power crisis

Ecofriendly subsidies proposed

EU plans to give more weightage to environmental and public safety norms by amending agricultural policy

Cancun impact felt in Dubai

The tone and tenor of the failed Fifth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Cancun found an echo in the annual meetings of …

Fighting a flawed WTO regime

India and G-33 are pushing for reform of the agriculture subsidy system but the US and EU have a different agenda for the upcoming Bali meet

Eating right to save the planet

We need to re-invent sustainable agriculture so that it can meet the needs of millions, but does not cost us the Earth

World’s 60 largest banks pumped $5.5 trillion into fossil fuels after the Paris Agreement: Report

$673 billion spent on fossil fuel financing in just 2022; clean energy finance has been largely stagnant

A year of Russia-Ukraine war: Global fossil fuel ‘bonanza’ may lead to more conflicts, warns Greenpeace

‘Neo-colonial models of extracting fossil fuels at any cost have to come to an end’

Public Deprived System

The country’s 76 million poor have been denied the right to claim subsidised foodgrain under public distribution system