Endosulfan: meet in Geneva begins, India still in denial

Sharad Pawar says many states had asked him not to ban the pesticide

Bird populations in India dwindling at alarming rate

Message from Bonn: Drop Bali agenda

Disagreements begin; parties to discuss informally to adopt long-term cooperation agenda

Oxford University defers decision on divesting stake in fossil fuels

Alumni occupy office building in protest; 21 international universities have already divested their stakes

'Most countries don’t want to recognise indigenous people as people'

Mohammed Taghi Farvar, former director of Avicenna University in Iran, is a well-known ecologist and social scientist. At present, he is the …

India denies GMO contamination in basmati

EU had sought clarification after finding genetically modified organisms in the exported rice

HFC-23 emissions on the rise

India, China threaten to release more super greenhouse gas; developed countries just as guilty

Rotterdam Convention meet: no consensus on including herbicide paraquat in the prior informed consent list

120 nations had agreed to the listing, but India and Gautemala played spoilsport

Vanishing islands of Bangladesh

Frequent natural disasters continue to inundate and erode many islands in the 'climate impact hot spot'

Ban on stem cell patents which involve destroying human embryos

Researchers call it regressive step, ethicists happy

Biodiversity governance: A mix of knowledge and forest management for benefit sharing

People’s biodiversity register a roadmap for forest management plans; it documents knowledge of status, history, ongoing changes and …

Biodiversity governance: Access and benefit sharing and its implications on agricultural resources

A special instrument for access to crop genetic resources, access and benefit sharing (ABS) system, is fraught with challenges  

Indian companies' CDM projects pollute environment

Most clean projects cleared on face value and are based on tall claims

Call to make healthy choices available and affordable

Health experts lash out at food industry for putting public health at risk

DTE Reportage

'Lifestyle' diseases spur UN to act

Biodiversity governance: The agreements and laws that help enforce it

Major legally binding conventions to protect nature were adopted at the Rio Summit where several countries came together amid rapidly …

Time to wake up to threat of NCDs

As the UN begins its meeting to devise strategies to tackle NCDs, Indian public health activists say it was a wake-up call for the health …

Non-communicable diseases: The unrecognised public health threat

Health is rarely the topic of discussion at the UN general assembly. But starting September 19, the UN began a high-level meeting to debate a …

SBI deadlock looms over Bonn climate talks

Russia raises matter of procedural irregularities at Doha; parallel sessions continue

India reverses stand on asbestos at Rotterdam Convention meet

Opposes its inclusion in prior informed consent list; campaigners accuse industry lobby of influencing government

Future compromised

The Earth Summit was a historical opportunity to set the world on the correct development trajectory. Negotiators from 191 countries came …