Teaching citizens

Expedition to Baffin Island to raise awareness about global warming

News - In short

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

Science and Technology - Briefs

The civil spring

Have an aggressive government and an overreaching judiciary curbed dissent?

Backroom deals

Is US roping in India on the sly to subvert Kyoto Protocol?

White asbestos finds backers at Rotterdam Convention

Lawsuit against Canada for noncompliance of Kyoto protocol

Seal hunt kicks off amid protests

Canadians oppose a run-of-river hydel project

Romania deliberates anti-cyanide bill

‘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

UN reports fall in development assistance from donor countries

Decline in aid will affect efforts to reach Millennium Development Goals by 2015

With a pinch of salt

Fast food can be made less salty, finds research. But companies refuse to do so

Science and Technology - Briefs

Friends of the Earth sues Canada for not meeting Kyoto targets

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 …

Canada, UK given Dodo Awards by civil society

The awards are given to countries that contribute to biodiversity loss

Lab Chrysotile bankrupt

British Columbia gets consumer-based carbon tax

EU's carbon rating plan for tar sands stalled

Canada heaves sigh of relief

Seeing land for trees