Furore over Zimbabwe's selection as head of UN body
Zimbabwe's election as the head of an important un environment body has generated much controversy. Francis Nhema, the country's minister of environment and tourism was nominated by Africa to head
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The real maths of the world
Our world did change in 2003. The US war on Iraq made sure that the rules of engagement were changed, perhaps for a long time to come. The change I see most visible is that the world has become
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Environet
This column will bring you an update on various groups and individuals working in fields related to environment, development and the sciences. This time some information on interesting and useful publications and networks
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Humanity's puzzling past
The 4.5 million year blind leap from "almost human" to Homo sapiens continues to baffle palaeontologists, but 2 new finds offer a new understanding of human evolution.
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The original Mus
Researchers zero in on the Indian subcontinent as the possible birthplace of that most evasive of pesky mammals the house mouse
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Focusing on links
Climate change, desertification and the GEF
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Confused roots
Asian or African, the origin is the same, say researchers who trace the first Chinese to the dark continent
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Gasping millions
Asthma, the bane of modern life, stalks the young ones and the affluent. It will strike 32 million people in India by 2010. The silent strangler has a propensity to waylay its victims, striking with stealth. An analysis into what triggers the killer which
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Sharing the air
The rich nations are trying to frame the rules for trading in emissions. However, the methods being used to allocate these are questionable. ANIL AGARWAL and SUNITA NARAIN argue that the rights and responsibilities of both rich and poor countries must be
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Tantrums of the "Christ Child"
A weather event which Peruvians once regarded as a boon is now recognised as causing terrible global disasters
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Paradigm shift as a way out of the current impasse
<p align="center"><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/mukul_blog.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 117px; float: left;" /></p> <p><strong>Moving from emission
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Will the Aral Sea ever come back?
"Forgive us, Aral. Please come back." These words written in chalk, on a ship sftKk in a sandy wasteland, which was once the bustling shore of the world"s fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea, tell a graphic tale of the human toll caused by am of the w
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My Copenhagen diary: How polluters won and we all lost
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b>Monday, December 14, 2009</b>: Standing in line in the freezing cold, waiting to be registered to the conference of parties to the climate change convention being held in Copenhagen, I have strange sense of foreboding that this will be an eventful but disappointing week.
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Satellite images help monitor ocean warmth
Meteorologists can now use satellite pictures to keep track of hot spots in the Pacific.
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Global sustainable development goals: Sustainability is about the use, Distribution and scarcity of natural resources - Eradicating poverty and saving the climate
<p>With relations between countries now being shaped by geo-economics rather than geo-politics, an emerging issue is to what extent the United States, China and India, all populous countries and top tier
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More of everything?
Increasing acid rain. Higher temperatures. Water scarcity. Shrinking farmlands. Reducing biodiversity. This is what the years leading to AD 2050 have in store for us
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Blueprints for change
THE CONFERENCE has just ratified the Earth Charter, the name of which has been changed to the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development at the behest of developing countries. This puts
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Soiled schemes
SURVIVAL is still the most important factor in the lives of millions in the developing countries. Now is the time to look carefully at all its aspects. Recalling Darwin, learning to live with errors
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Warsaw paves the way for apportioning the carbon budget based on use and distribution, not scarcity
<p>Since all Parties are now going make “nationally determined contributions” towards mitigating climate change they will do so under Article 4.1 of the Convention, and the issue to be decided,
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Arid politics
Each year the world loses $42.3 billion because of desertification. But when its leaders meet to discuss the fast spreading problem, all they can do is wrangle about funds