It’s still open season for bio-piracy

Rich nations block accord on benefit-sharing rules for the world’s genetic resources

Compromising on climate

Jan Pronk, chairperson of climate change talks held in New York, offers a compromise plan that gives away too much on sinks

Patent issues delaying Ebola cure

Canada's exclusive licensing rights of its Ebola patent to a US firm are holding up global development of a vaccine

Predatory EU pacts

EU is pushing India and Canada to sign free trade agreements that will hurt their generic drugs—and the outrage is global

Estimate of world’s oldest water

The scientists estimate that there could be around 11 cubic million km of this water buried deep beneath the ground

‘OECMs are a win-win for conservation and community’

Down To Earth talks to conservationist Vinod Mathur to learn more about India’s roadmap to conserve its marine regions

Great expectations from Bonn climate talks, but sticky issues need resolving

Drafting a universal climate change agreement enters critical stage of negotiations and streamlining of agreement text

Power games at UN climate talks

Climate talks unfolded amid high drama. Developing countries protested inaction by developed countries, civil society organisations walked out, …

World gets a yellow card

The Warsaw climate talks serve a grim warning to the world that inaction will cost, writes Chandra Bhushan as he leaves Warsaw just before the …

Pesticides in our food

There is never any end to learning. And so, surprises. We have learnt, over 20 years, that environmental governance in India is lackadaisical. …

How climate change is messing up the ocean’s biological clock, with unknown long-term consequences

Phytoplankton blooms are, in some aspects, metronomes of the annual oceanic cycles around which many species’ biological clocks are synced …

Troubling thaw

Corporate watching

Penny dropped

Currency>> Penny • Canada

Time of our life

Oxygen bubbled 100 million years earlier than thought

Oral history evidence

Building green citizens

Musicians don’t age

Music>> Hearing • Canada

Gas about good oil

Website>> Oil • Canada

Where's mama?

Fate sealed

Where are the boys?

Heady days ahead?

Will cannabis be rethought fit for medical use?

A row resurfaces

Logging a protest