Cabinet dilutes new mining bill

Alters provision on sharing of profits with affected people

Courts act to protect floodplains

Centre dithers on banning encroachment in river zones

Shale gas: hype and reality

As the world rushes for the gas, scientists gather evidence of its environmental risks

Bill shows the way

Stringent laws in India can control unethical practices

If not now

Then when?

73,556,000

How well do we know our ocean?

Go under

Or, follow coastal regulations

What? Why?

Our disaster preparedness

In short

Adulterated milk floods Maharashtra

Punjab's depleting groundwater stagnates agricultural growth

India's poorest people live in the richest areas Comments from the dialogue on mining organised by CSE

Misguided shot

The Basel convention guidelines to manage plastic waste miss the point: reducing plastics is the real solution

Act of omission

Public institutions do not seek permission from the biodiversity authority before genetically manipulating crops

Modified situations

The Philippines introduces stringent laws for GM products; six European countries in the dock for lax GMO laws

Power the people

For the country where only 15 per cent of its population have access to electricity, Nepal has come a long way. It took 84 years to achieve power …

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Last mile chaos

New Delhi struggles with a policy to regulate e-rickshaws

Ministry indifferent to illegal mining

Shows cold response to recommendations on curbing illegal mining of iron, manganese

International dump yard

Ship breaking thrives in South Asia because of weak laws

Protests against unfair land allotment in Rajasthan

Novartis exposes India's weak patent laws. Will generics be kicked out?

SC & Centre wrangle over forest committee

Value of deforestation?

Environment protection act reduced to a travesty of their mandate