US's free trade agreement for growth in Africa

Tamil Nadu's temple tanks hold key to water recharge

But authorities cement tank beds and fail to restore water inlet channels

Rich nations can’t dump toxic waste on poor nations

178 nations agree to enforce Basel Ban Amendment

Basel final day: Rich nations can’t dump toxic waste on poor nations

178 nations agree to enforce Basel Ban Amendment

A march to highlight land struggles in India

Beginning October 2, activists will cover 75,000 km in a year

Sri Lanka commissions first solar power plant

Will provide electricity to 3,000 rural families

Radioactive contamination rises to record levels in Fukushima

Increase in radioactivity blamed on the recent typhoon, Phanfone

India still scores low in human development in UNDP report

It is ranked at 136 along with Equatorial Guinea while Sri Lanka strides ahead

Half of the world’s richest biodiversity zones unprotected: UN study

Fast progress needed on targets for protected areas especially marine areas, it adds

Delegates attending biodiversity meet swing to Bollywood tunes

Negotiations progress smoothly

First ever Green Climate Fund board meeting under way in Geneva

Co-chairs elected from developing and developed countries on day one

Budget bites on vehicles

Fails to restrain use of subsidised diesel in private diesel cars

Are our budgets participatory?

Legislative scrutiny of budget in India compares with that of Afghanistan and Rwanda

Pakistan bars scientists meet on Siachen park

Radioactive mirage

Say cheese to Brussels

Radioactive Mirage

Trade war over wind energy heats up between US and China

Third complaint against Chinese companies flouting rules filed. Probe underway

Quito declaration: A step towards free trade

North Korea shuts nuclear plant for fuel aid

In short

African Great Lakes to protect and assist regionally displaced

Indonesia scraps haze pact

Poor countries get a say in IMF

World Population Day: call to end India's target-based approach to family planning

Two-child norm is endangering women's lives and skewing sex-ratio, say activists