Global Eco Watch: ‘Strongest storm on Earth’ in 2020, slams into the Philippines

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Green Climate Fund turns to developing nations for funds

UN-backed body plans to raise $10-15 billion by end of 2014

India compromises on WTO deal

Under pressure from the US, it accepts conditions not part of G-33 proposal

Diplomacy deficit

India wavers on including hydrofluorocarbons in Montreal Protocol meet agenda

Trick or treat?

Countries approach communities to say yes to nuclear disposal site near them

Scientists project path of radiation plume from Japan's nuclear reactors

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COP27 diary (November 7): ‘World on a highway to climate hell, with our foot on the accelerator’

A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit  

Brazil’s GM corns no more resistant against bugs

Farmers demand compensation as seed companies blame farmers

Renewable energy: Investments decline globally

China takes over from Europe as the largest investing region

Farms in cities

A case for urban agriculture in India

From protests to where in 2012?

A complicated bus-ride

The missing public

Beyond CO2

Plants absorb more pollutants than thought

Chinese honey route

Thriving honey laundering traced to Asian giant

Least developed countries set expectations for COP28 with Dakar Declaration

LDCs account for 1% of GHG emissions but are at forefront of the climate crisis, say ministers

COVID-19: Global trade to decline 27% in Q2, warns UNCTAD

Global trade value slumped 3% in first quarter of 2020, according to the report

COVID-19: $2.5 tln needed by developing countries to weather economic crisis, says report

Debts of $1 trillion owed by developing countries needs to be cancelled

Scientists make DNA barcode of malaria parasite

It can help prevent spread of drug-resistant malaria from one region to another

Democratising the global food chain

From corporatisation to cooperatives

Rio: not plus or minus, just 20

LDCs ring the alarm bell before Bonn

Demand higher ambition; will EU still take the lead?