Protected areas can help water birds adapt to climate change: Study
The shift in range of wintering water birds across protected areas in Europe and North Africa was 40 per cent faster than others
Mimicking nature
Emerging technologies inspired by nature are reducing consumption, enhancing speed, sequestering carbon and much more
Is ‘climate anxiety’ a clinical diagnosis? Should it be?
In the absence of official diagnoses or recognised treatments, collective action against climate change may therefore be an effective solution to …
Don’t eat the rainforests: Top brands complicit in Indonesia’s ecosystem destruction, probe alleges
Companies procuring oil from and financing the Royal Golden Eagle, which set up palm oil and pulp plantations in Indonesia, finds investigation
COP24: Talanoa Dialogue ends with a weak declaration
A strong language on increasing ambition in COP24 outcome is crucial in implementing the objective of the Talanoa Dialogue and the Paris Agreement
Our Frugal Innovation
India is working on a model of inclusive innovation to provide solutions for people at the bottom of the heap. Will it work?
Has comet ISON survived sun’s heat?
If the comet still exists, people on the Earth could witness a spectacular show in the night sky in December
Civil society raises alarm as regional free trade negotiations get under way in Delhi
‘Regional FTAs will jeopardise farming, dairy, manufacturing and generic medicines sectors’
Countries put forward their expectations of the Peru climate summit
BASIC and Arab group demand that the new agreement be based on equity and common but differentiated responsibility
Supreme Court go-ahead for interlinking rivers
Court had earlier said it would not favour interlinking of rivers if it puts a huge financial burden on the Centre
Nepal’s civil society wants right to food to become fundamental right
Country is in the process of drafting a new Constitution and civil society organisations are demanding that food security be included in the text
US, equity and the elephants in the room
The issue of sharing the common atmospheric space has been at the core of discussions—the elephant in the room that we want to forget. It …
Activists demand access to affordable oral hepatitis drugs
Giving patents to foreign-made medicines will add to patients’ woes, they urge
NGOs to boycott climate talks
Civil society groups express unhappiness over developed countries and Poland blocking negotiations
Patent claim on hepatitis C drug questioned in many countries
With hepatitis C killing at least 700,000 people every year, civil society has strengthened efforts to make the drug accessible
Breastfeeding week kicks off amid concerns over unlawful tactics by baby food companies
Health activists call for effective implementation of regulations that ban promotion of baby foods and feeding bottles for infants
Production and sale of baby food to be monitored
Non-profits and two autonomous state agencies authorised to lodge complaints regarding violations. Will that be enough to bring violators to book?
Include eggs in nation’s food security programme, demand activists
People’s Budget Initiative says implementation of food security programme discouraging
Civil society groups call for an end to carbon markets, green economy
Margarita Declaration, issued at the end of the four day pre-COP conference in Venezuela, was backed by UN but goes against the global agency's …
Air pollution
The Modi government released the National Air Quality Index (AQI) for public information
Global wildlife populations halved in 40 years
Hydro dams, pollution led to a 76 per cent dip in freshwater species populations between 1970 and 2010, says report
Supreme Court to examine drug pricing policy
Asks Centre about very high profit margins allowed to manufacturers and dealers under Drug Price Control Order for essential medicines
Could Bhopal gas victims have got more compensation?
A 1988 confidential letter by JRD Tata to Rajiv Gandhi reveals Union Carbide was willing to pay a higher compensation in case of an out-of-court …
Varied visions for new climate agreement in Lima
As developed and developing countries continue to disagree over key elements of the new climate deal in the works, civil society groups suggest …
'World needs to invest US $15.5 billion a year on breastfeeding'
World Bank estimate for investment on breastfeeding is less than 20 per cent of what is required, according to international non-profit, IBFAN