Carbon suckers

Mangroves store four times more carbon than other forests

EXCLUSIVE: Eben Moglen says freedom depends on the Net

Beware of even democratic regimes which want to wiretap

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Double standards

Bumps on road fuel cars

India signs nuclear convention

Intended as gift to Obama

A bad example from the US

A public sector technology transfer bill focuses exclusively on patenting

UN reports fall in development assistance from donor countries

Decline in aid will affect efforts to reach Millennium Development Goals by 2015

Another atmospheric river storm is battering California

Emergency declared in the US state; Third such storm to affect it since December 26

A satellite data system will help detect, act on methane emissions

Methane Alert and Response System to help track major emission sources globally

This September was the 5th warmest in 142 years: Report

For the Southern Hemisphere, the month was the hottest this year

Watch out for new COVID-19 strain, warns Niti Aayog’s Paul

Priority genome sequencing for those landing from the UK amid heightened surveillance

COVID-19: What will be the new normal

Each country has shown that it is for itself in this crisis — A dog-eat-dog world

Wait and watch

The US government is in transition. But why should the rest of the world suffer?

Southeast Asia’s double whammy—child malnutrition and obesity

WHO/UNICEF report does a reality check on region’s 'double burden'

UN climate change chief urges alma mater to divest from fossil fuels

Swarthmore College has an estimated $139 million in fossil fuel holdings

UK to build supercomputer for weather forecasting

140-tonne computer will be able to perform 16,000 trillion calculations per second

Climate change likely to widen health inequities: WHO paper

‘Poorer populations and children will be disproportionately affected’

Save nature, do nothing

In some cases, doing nothing is the way to preserve ecology

Poison on the plate

Study links toxins in food products to cancer and other diseases in children

Count fish before catch

Identify the weakest link in ecosystem-based management

Another leak

Wikileaks>> Nuclear deal • New Zealand/India/US

Chewing up the resources

It's official now

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