MAHYCO refuses to share safety data on GM crops

Mark of protest

World lost 8 per cent of its forests in past 14 years: study

UN plans to restore 150 degraded forests by 2020

Making CETPs work

The pollution commons

CETPs: in fashion

Heathrow-5 opens amidst protests

UNFCCC meet fails to secure emission commitments

Prominent Indian tea brands contain pesticides: Greenpeace

Study finds 67 per cent of tested samples of packed tea leaves contained banned pesticide DDT; some samples had acutely poisonous monocrotophos

Brazilian soy traders help preserve Amazon

Taiwan agrees to shut down nuclear waste dump in Orchid Island

Greenpeace at Kingsnorth power station

Right of way

EU parliamentarians vote against propping up carbon prices

Proposal to artificially boost carbon prices fails to receive support, sends prices crashing further

Right of way

An upcoming port at Dhamra was cited as the reason for the endangered Olive Ridley turtles giving the Gahirmatha beach a miss last year. This year,…

Deo slams MP government for denying forest rights to tribals in Mahan

Union tribal affairs minister says villagers’ consent to mining by Hindalco and Essar comprised more than 11,000 forged signatures

In Court

Climate change meet in Uganda by Commonwealth Heads yield no results

Moscow introduces GM-free label

GM crop field trials: anti-GM activists protest outside Moily's office

Moily’s approval will now allow event selection trials of rice, castor, cotton and a few other genetically modified crops ÒÇÇ

Tribals nail government lie on protecting indigenous people at biodiversity meet

'Will the Indian government abandon mining projects to protect us?' ask residents of Singrauli who face displacement because of Mahan coal project

To bring back bees, European commission to impose temporary ban on neonicotinoid pesticide use in farms

Move to be reviewed after two years

Biodiversity meet begins; India takes over presidency of CBD

CoP 11 will decide future course of action plans to meet Aichi Targets

Sri Lanka clamps down on civil society groups

Activists say attack on freedom of expression is indicative of a deteriorating democracy

Ban on stem cell patents which involve destroying human embryos

Researchers call it regressive step, ethicists happy