For the love of air

International experts meet to develop a blueprint for future action to improve air quality in Delhi

Contemptuous moves

Do Arundhati Roy and M L Khurana understand what they are doing by undermining yet another institution of our democracy?

We need global regulation for corporations

Eva Joly, EU parliamentarian from the French Green Party, is tipped to be the Presidential candidate of the Greens in the 2012 French …

Ode to politics of consensus: Sheila Dikshit

It would be really unfortunate if we let the Sheila Dikshit way of politics go out of fashion

How to douse the flames

The challenge facing India today is in many ways the biggest challenge facing the entire world

Call the bluff

The JNU episode must force us to decipher the modus operandi of the modern `truth-telling' information machinery

Will women in panchayats change Bengal?

West Bengal is making what could be another step towards village self-rule, where villagers, including women, will decide what is best for them, …

A vital book

...says the President of India while receiving CSE's first report on global environmental negotiations

Devil quotes the scriptures

The absence of a clear position on the transfer of nuclear energy technology under the clean development mechanism amounts to doublespeak

A watery affair

The real issues of global water management took a backseat as crisis-mongering and anti-dam protests hijacked the Second World Water Forum at …

All about agreements

THE IMPLEMENTATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENTS, THEORY AND PRACTICE·Edited by DG Victor, K Raustiala and …

Across Africa, water conflict threatens security, health and the environment

Once conflicts escalate, they are hard to resolve and can have a negative impact on water security, creating vicious cycles of conflict

Sub-Saharan Africa shows the way: A quarter of parliamentarians are women

In Mali, female representation in parliament increased by 19.5 percentage points; Burundi with 41% women parliamentarians in the upper house, …

How artificial intelligence systems could threaten democracy

The advent of digital repression is profoundly affecting the relationship between citizen and state

General Elections 2019: Science in polls, from feel 'good' to feel 'strong'

With the Balakot episode and later the ASAT declaration, the ruling party has brought ‘muscular science’ into the spotlight alongside …

Remembering Anil Agarwal: Cold truths of global warming

Today is the death anniversary of Anil Agarwal, the founder of Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth. On June 30, 1998, he wrote …

Why farmers don't have electoral clout

Although farmers vote at least as much, if not more than industrial workers or urban middle classes, elections are not fought around farmers' issues

Baptised by fire

Wildlife saviour Richard Leakey, hailed as messiah by some, and hated as hell's messenger by others, is now in the thick of Kenyan politics

Intrepid non-learners

Indian politicians travel on public money—for what they can learn from the click of a mouse

When laws make out laws

Everybody's a loser. Forest guards die for laws that cannot be defended. Poor people get exploited. Veerappan rules the jungle. Sandalwood trees …

Playing with facts

An affidavit filed in the Supreme Court by the Indian automaker TELCO suggests a misinterpretation of the WHO's views on air pollution. The …

Climatic loophole

Sinks can now be potentially identified as the most dangerous loophole for the environmental integrity of the Kyoto Protocol

Why India took 75 years to get its first tribal woman president

In the larger scheme of things, where global capital and politics come into the picture, tribal women’s voices are missing

Alexei Navalny suspected poisoning: Why opposition figure stands out in Russian politics

It’s too early to say with certainty why Navalny fell ill. However, he has been attacked before

Why tyranny could be the inevitable outcome of democracy

The elected political leadership in many countries currently has vindicated Greek philosopher Plato's observation