Daily roundup by CSE and Down to Earth @COP27 by Avantika Goswami and Rohini Krishnamurthy, November 7, 2022 • UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that Loss and damage can no longer be swept
taking into account charges levelled against the French government, alleging that it had downplayed risks to public health after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a judge has ordered that
the European Union's (eu) efforts to boost passenger and goods transport on railways have not quite succeeded. The Eurostat report on transport infrastructure reveals that railway network is
In response to a writ petition, Nepal's supreme court has asked the government to keep the capital city of Kathmandu free of garbage. Recently, the court issued a directive to ensure healthy
A sacked employee of Norwegian Cruise Line Limited (ncll) has taken the wind out of the company's sails by turning whistle-blower. A tip-off from the ex-worker has led the us Environmental
Around 140 new frog species have been discovered in Sri Lanka's rainforest, catapulting the island to an amphibian hotspot of global significance. A team of US, Belgian and Lankan scientists
A leading specialist on biological farming in Australia recently accused the country's top scientific body throwing him out because he had voiced his opposition to genetically modified (gm) crops.
Together with heavy opposition against Beijing hosting the Olympics in 2008 due to increasing air pollution in the country, China faces many other environmental problems. Chinese city officials
The us Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining (osm) has proposed new rules for large-scale mining operations that would give operators wider leeway to bury streams and mountain
THE department of power has set up a working group to prepare new legislation to modify the 14 existing Acts that affect energy consumption. The 10-member panel comprises experts in energy, law,
TRADE wars between Japan and USA are common, but now there are major technology wars brewing. And the US companies may be getting an upper hand. Japanese electronics have flooded markets
