Green innovation steals the show at SEED Awards

An Indian enterprise and 27 African ventures win prize for sustainable business models empowering communities

UN prepares to launch Global Environment Outlook report

Sixth edition of the report will analyse policies that will help in attaining unfinished environmental goals

Smart technique can increase crop yields without harming environment

New method matches crop strains to local soil and climate conditions and makes efficient use of fertilisers

Innovation key to meet Aichi biodiversity targets by 2020

Meeting the goals of Strategic Plan for Biodiversity can help sustainable development post-2015

Scientists gather in Greece to brainstorm ways to save world’s oceans

Marine life and mangroves face threat from plastic

Rotterdam Convention: no new agenda for pesticides at chemical review panel meet

Signals under-utilisation of the subsidiary body of Rotterdam Convention

New polar agreement signed as shipping in Arctic predicted to increase

The amendments to the SOLAS Convention will come into force in 2017

Landslide destroys hydropower plant in China’s Three Gorges Dam

5,000 vulnerable points identified as region prone to frequent disasters

International panel submits report on transboundary haze in Singapore

The government plans to keep the recommendations confidential

Study sheds new light on lineage of Arctic people

Analysis based on DNA samples collected from ancient human remains

UNEP chooses Nigeria to lead action to combat marine pollution in Africa

Country will be in charge of coordination efforts of 22 nations

Oceans Commission proposes eight ways to reverse degradation of high seas

Report calls for urgent global action to save oceans from pollution and acidification

Degradation of Amazon rainforest affecting its natural function

Fallout could be linked to increasing droughts

Hit by slime, Caribbean corals at risk of extinction

Loss of algae grazers could wipe out the corals in the next 20 years

Borneo’s wildlife habitat to shrink by a third in 65 years

Over 30 per cent of island’s mammals likely to become extinct

Nations renew commitment for Minamata Convention at UNGA meet

18 countries sign the treaty at a high-level meeting in New York

New UN report gives recommendations to improve human development in Asia-Pacific

Proposes green growth approach, among others

Full extent of carbon emissions from fossil-fuelled power plants underestimated

Current accounting methods do not consider life-long emissions

Green tidings from Glasgow Commonwealth Games

Scotland aims to recycle 80 per cent waste produced during the event

Typhoon Phanfone batters Japan

One US airman killed; hundreds of flights disrupted

Hong Kong shows improvement in air quality

Catalytic converters in vehicles bring down emission levels

Monitoring animal health must to prevent Ebola-like outbreaks: FAO

70 per cent of infectious diseases in recent decades have originated in animals

Australia set for highest temperature rise by century end

Government in denial mode despite repeated warnings

Children make up for 80 per cent of deaths attributed to climate change

But they are the most ignored in the climate change discourse

Beef cattle release more greenhouse gases than other livestock

Environmental footprint of beef is bigger than poultry or dairy