CoP26: Why is forest-rich India staying away from Glasgow Declaration

India not happy with the effort to link infrastructure development and related activities with forest conservation in the Glasgow Declaration&…

New COVID-19 variants have changed the game, and vaccines will not be enough. We need global ‘maximum suppression’

At least 3 documented SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern can reinfect recovered patients and vaccinated individuals 

Wind power capacity needs to grow at thrice the current speed to reach net zero: Report

The world needs to instal a minimum of 180 GW of new wind energy capacity every year

Extinction Rebellion needs to build solidarity and work on its race problem

But it shouldn't be on a government watch list

Denmark’s new climate law could potentially be world-leading but does not go far enough

While a crucial step, the law does not reform the Nordic model of consumption

How will Brexit impact environmental policy in the UK?

If UK decides to leave the EU, experts fear it would lead to dilution of the EU’s stringent laws, making the environment vulnerable to …

Left sees red over Marx copyright

A small publisher of Collected Works has run afoul of Marxists by asserting copyright

What does Boris Johnson’s plan to ban fuel-powered vehicles mean for UK

Several other countries may follow suit in the coming years to phase out petrol- and diesel-run vehicles  

The salt challenge

Its restriction in food can help India fight high BP

UK announces ‘Energy Price Guarantee’, supports shale gas & oil

UK will become a net energy exporter by 2040, Prime Minister Liz Truss says

Sizzling Europe: Several countries face high temperatures, wildfires

COVID-19: How useful are travel restrictions in curbing spread?

Travel bans make sense only in the beginning of a pandemic, say experts

Deaths, hospitalisation can go up due to Omicron, warns Europe’s health agency

A ‘stealth’ version of Omicron can raise risks of virus spread

Is the development of green intellectual property paving the way to environmental sustainability in India?

About 13% of India’s high-value patents are related to green tech

Prince Charles pushed markets over State at Davos

Entirely at odds with his long advocacy of coercive state action on environmental issues

UK changes its waste strategy for circular economy with Brexit

Maximise the value of resource use, and minimise adverse environmental impacts, aims new waste strategy of UK

UK fertility clinics offering unverified add-on services

A research paper finds that only 13 of 74 clinics substantiated the claims on their websites

2015’s global milk crisis threatens small farmers in India

As the Indian government tries to aggressively integrate the dairy sector into the global market, the lives and livelihoods of small …

Indicator of doom

Ecosystems undergo dramatic fluctuations just before collapse

Maths of Gilead's hepatitis C drug

Why US firm's super expensive drug sofosbuvir costs so much and how it can be made at a tenth of current price

G8 and tragedy of Africa

Rich nations are forcing African states to change laws to facilitate private investment in agriculture in a replay of colonial adventurism

Special Relationship: New Anglo-American energy partnership is Western fossil fuel hypocrisy at its best  

Instead of filling the gap left by Russian fossil fuels with renewables, the UK has signed a deal with its traditional transatlantic ally which …

When did modern lizards originate? A beast from the Triassic Period offers answers

‘Cryptovaranoides microlanius’ lived in limestone cracks around Bristol about 250-200 million years ago

Long Covid: 2 million cases in UK, experts seek recognition of condition as ‘occupational illness’

Most cases reported to have tested positive a year ago

Monkeypox in UK: 7 cases reported, 1 with travel history

All seven cases in the UK till now are of the West African clade, a milder version of the virus