Funding slim for Darwin's Initiative

John Major's Darwin Initiative proves too expensive for Britain's exchequer.

'Bonus' on the sly

Clipped wings

Lake of misery

Common concerns

Water of contention

Political chicanery has plugged the revision of the US's Clean Water act

Born safe

Conning Kenyans

Japanese sponsors present Kenyan ngos with a fait accompli on a dam they don't want

Patent problems

An surge of gene patents in Europe threatens to overwhelm the law

Waiting for the fever

Mainstreaming women

Sophisticated smuggling

Fishing curbs

Herbal fuel lights up doubt

India's herbal fuel travels from disbelief to certainty and finally rests in commotion

What's ailing?

A WHO report on Southeast Asia blames poverty for the rot

Freedom in the air

Saving drops for tomorrow

The sorry state of global water resources will surface in the sixth Stockholm Water Symposium

A Gangetic blunder

None for the plunge

Neem: the patent serial

Standard tests

Toolmaker crows

Wilted concerns

A recently proposed environmental evaluation smacks of evasive tactics

Brazil backs dubious project

Antarctic odessey