EU gets tough on environment crimes

Seeds of discontent?

India's first legislation aimed at protecting farmers' rights raises many apprehensions

Want to be fried?

Harmful combo drugs flood market

Irrational drug combos flood market; regulator does little to remove them

Mercurial gift

India is all set to receive a deadly cargo from USA

Dumping worries

Waste, by any other name...

In Short

Painful entry for Poland into the EU

ZOE YOUNG travels through Poland to find that its farmers dread integration with the EU

Fuelling a crisis

Revised urea policy rekindles debate on just allocation of cleaner fuels

Yesterday once more

Unsafe cleanup of the Carbide factory revives memories of Bhopal's tragedy

US municipalities to abolish rights of corporations

On hold

Land acquisition, rehabilitation bills cater to corporate interests

Tiger trouble - balancing act gone awry

Cabinet push to nuclear bill

Multinationals will make profits, government will bear liability

Programme plugged

Courting controversy

Ram Naik passes a death sentence for Dahanu's fragile ecology

Draft EIA notification favours industry over environment

Court questions sealing relief law

Delhi to explain how the law is relevant to the Capital’s planned development

Forests for people

Newly democratic Bhutan pushes community forestry to tackle rural poverty  

States’ entry ruffles GM lobby

Biotech firms object to states getting a say in approving GM crop trials

Faulty data, poor monitoring

A trading scheme for air pollutants could face the usual problem of implementation

Mining bill gets it right

Heavy on the purse?

Measuring efficiency of electric appliances fails to take off in India