Is India ready for post-2020 global biodiversity framework?

India enacted Biological Diversity Act in 2002 but it has to be implemented by states & many failed to prepare rules

Bracing for germ attacks

Failed Trojan horse

Analysing the contents of containers suspected of carrying toxins has become easier

Journals to censor bioterrorism data

Know the devil

Biopesticide developed from garlic

Why India has the world's lowest rate of Alzheimer's disease

A bill for biodiversity

CoP-11 has an urgent agenda: to look for money to fund new targets

Moneymakers

Friendly parasites

Spiderman comes to town

Georges Brossard came to town to inform us that tiny creatures can solve most of our problems

Chink in the armour

Bioterrorism: Contentious content

The sudden spurt in articles on bioterrorism published by medical journals may have inadvertently helped convince the public that the war on Iraq …

Podcast: Humanity’s extermination of species will boomerang on it

Every species is a part of Nature’s chain; If one goes, the entire chain will collapse or at least be disturbed

Should we play weather god?

Debate continues despite consensus to ban geoengineering

World Earth Day 2022: Community-conserved biodiversity is key to sustenance and strong bioeconomy

Community participation is paramount in conserving biodiversity, especially since local communities directly benefit from using biological …

Blocking out bioterrorism

Obsessive compulsive funding

New targets to protect biodiversity must include farmers and agriculture

Africa’s protected areas cover an area of 20.4 million km² or 15.1% of the landmass. But experts say this isn’t enough. 

Cause for alarm

Studies show that a crop pest may evolve resistance to a biological pesticide Bt toxin more rapidly than believed

Biodiversity framework: Ambitions running amok at negotiations ahead of CoP15

Negotiators have a tough task to clean up the text of global biodiversity framework in 6 days and ready it for December  

Bee aware

CoP 11: No consensus on resource mobilisation

Jayanthi Natarajan hopeful of Parties agreeing on a final document 

Green killer

Seeds that discourage insects

Genetically-engineered pea seeds can successfully ward off voracious pests