Poison on the plate

Study links toxins in food products to cancer and other diseases in children

Count fish before catch

Identify the weakest link in ecosystem-based management

Another leak

Wikileaks>> Nuclear deal • New Zealand/India/US

Chewing up the resources

India, Japan pitch for carbon credits from nuclear energy

Non-profits irked. Say lessons not learnt from Fukushima

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US-based economists win Nobel Prize for groundbreaking work with ‘natural experiments’

Their approach has revolutionised empirical research, says Nobel committee

Eight Western Lowland Gorillas at US safari park down with COVID-19

They are the first known cases of great apes to be infected by the virus

World Food Day: Plant-based diet can fix food inequality, cut premature deaths says report

Plant-based diets can cut down carbon emissions by 30%; wildlife loss by 46%

A third of US reels under drought

Likely to experience dry spell till at least October 

$1.5 trillion global trade finance gap affecting SDG targets: ADB

Women entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises are the worst-hit

Some progress, lots left: UN Climate Change annual report

Report ahead of Bonn conference lists opportunities for 2019

World’s second-largest emitter might leave the first-ever global climate deal

India's climate dilemma

Will India toe the US line of capping carbon emissions from farming?

Sweet-heart trouble

Evidence implicating sugar in heart disease builds up

No balanced package for Doha

Bangkok climate talks divided over closure of long-term cooperative action

Pray before you spray

Household cleaning products cause cardiac diseases

Improved stove: a misnomer?

Some emit more black carbon than traditional mud stoves

More grime on teflon

Chemical used in teflon triggers early menopause

US targets China’s wind subsidy

Files complaint in WTO; says China unfairly helping equipment makers

COVID vaccines pillar COVAX to wind down by year-end, left with billions unspent

Vaccine delivery to shift to regular programmes

COP28 Diary (December 11, 2023): New text on Global Goal on Adaptation introduced with concerning changes

No consensus among Parties over negotiating text on global carbon market

COVID-19: UNCTAD predicts $3.4 tln debt for developing countries

Income losses to exceed $220 bln in developing countries, says report 

Accidental toxic spill in Colorado river continues to spread

Authorities deny any threat to fish and other wildlife 

FAO in partnership with wholesale union to reduce food waste

World is losing 1.3 billion tonnes of food worth $1 trillion every year