Fisherfolk demand lifting of ban on sea cucumber fishing

Australia grows more sandalwood than India

Poultry trade down with bird flu

US not keen to trade freely

COVID-19 vaccine: WTO chief brushes aside TRIPS waiver

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala offers ‘third way’ to bridge the COVID vaccine shortfall based on more licensing agreements

Menacing US diplomacy

Specialist attachés are strenuously pushing maximalist intellectual property rules worldwide

Forest states want money in lieu of felling

On August 1, 2003, Madhya Pradesh made a plea in the Supreme Court seeking a fund-generating mechanism for forest protection. Earlier, in June, …

Jobs Jobs Jobs

The government is obsessed with economic growth. Employment is bound to follow, it claims. That's a delusion. The swelling numbers of unemployed …

Cancun redux

Reflecting upon the fifth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization at Cancun, a Down To Earth editorial (see: "How not to lose …

Bad chemistry

Asbestos, agribusiness get a leg up

Predatory EU pacts

EU is pushing India and Canada to sign free trade agreements that will hurt their generic drugs—and the outrage is global

More than 1,300 rhinos fell to poaching in Africa in 2015: IUCN

Poaching of rhinos is fuelled by the demand for their horns in Southeast Asia

Last pangolins

The world is running out of time to save its only scaly mammal

Sharks in soup

India goes against world in not banning shark fin trade

The World After

Suspect shrimps

EU detects antibiotic residues in Indian consignments

Shear waste

Efficient e-waste recycling technology on the anvil

Skewed solutions

The long-awaited wildlife board meeting chalks out a strategy but grey areas remain

India becomes second largest producer of cotton

Jaggery made using time-tested method is more wholesome

UPDATE: Food crunch

Guggal faces sticky end

Ayurveda prescribes it for heart ailments; no data available on surviving plants

WTO rules against India's domestic content requirements in solar power

The complaint alleged that the DCR mandate put into place by India discriminated against US exports and favoured Indian manufacturers

Twice Unlucky

In 1962, it was the Indo-Chinese war. Now it is the creation of the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve. Once again, the Bhotiyas, who inhabit the …

Dealing with waste

On the 10th anniversary of the Basel Convention, member states reiterate the need to minimise the generation of hazardous waste