Nike and Adidas are using kangaroo skin to make sneakers. Is that necessary?

How popular shoe manufacturers are contributing to the world’s largest commercial slaughter of land-based wild animals

Balancing trade wars

Livelihood opportunities should take precedence in global trade talks as it is more about employment than anything else right now

The trade in body parts of people with albinism is driven by myth and international inaction

An upcoming UN meeting on witchcraft and human rights in Geneva is set to focus on the rising attacks on Albinos and the trade of body parts in …

Darkening shadow over drug access

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is another trade pact that will tighten patent laws

Last chance for the big cat

Several countries are getting tough with tiger poachers and traders in what may be the final attempt to save the magnificent beast:

Trade vs environment

Nine years since the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was created, the environmental impacts of trade liberalisation in the region …

Four leopards killed every week in India: WWF

Report warns that the endangered cat may reach near extinction as happened with tiger

Poaching biggest threat to sturgeon species in Danube; 337 illegal activities in 7 years: Report

At least 955 sturgeon specimens seized during 2016-2022, the study showed

US targets China’s wind subsidy

Files complaint in WTO; says China unfairly helping equipment makers

Toxic mall

Instead of curtailing use of plastics, the Delhi government sets up a new market

Free access

Certified renewable

Renewable energy certificates find currency in Europe

Whose right(s)?

In short

Pyrrhic victory

Bangladesh backyard poultry hit by bird flu

Andhra farmers to earn more

A treaty to block cheaper drugs

Developed countries to use a geographical advantage to stop generics

‘Compromise’ on TRIPS waiver is a sellout

Tough new conditions emerge in the compromise deal to ease WTO intellectual property barriers to production of COVID-19 medical tools

In the red

Left at the mercy of brokers who dictate the market terms, many cultivators of Gloriosa superba have consumed the plant's poisonous tubers to …

Dispensing with dear drugs

New US law to clear the decks for generic drugs (Read full article)

In the tax bracket again

The Orissa government has slapped a forest development tax on three minor forest produce items -- tendu leaf, timber and bamboo. Seen as a …

South Asian Union: Dream reality?

A closer-knit South Asian community is not beyond the realms of possibility now. At the 12th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation …

Growing organic tea in northeast India is a difficult task

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