In Court
infamous five: Eight US states and the city of New York are taking five of US' biggest power companies to court. Reason: they are some of the biggest contributors to global warming in the country.
infamous five: Eight US states and the city of New York are taking five of US' biggest power companies to court. Reason: they are some of the biggest contributors to global warming in the country.
Biotech giant Monsanto will participate in the drafting of a new legislation to regulate the trade of genetically modified (gm) seeds in Argentina. Monsanto (us) had recently complained about
In keeping with the requests of conservationists, Kenya's president Mwai Kibaki rejected on December 31, 2004, a new law enacted by the parliament allowing sport hunting of wild animals straying into
The state of California and the city of Los Angeles have sued Coca-Cola over the distribution of batches of Coke manufactured in Mexico. RELATED STORY
asean health meet: Health ministers of 11 South East Asian countries met in Dhaka recently to discuss over ways to enhance cooperation to develop health care services in the region. Bangladeshi
staple switch: The Sri Lankan government is now busy promoting the country's own staple food among its people. It feels that Sri Lankans are getting used to consuming large amounts of imported wheat
To find out what the Union Budget has in store for science and the environment, Down To Earth spoke to environmentalists and representatives of the scientific and business communities. Their views
Gujarat is paying a heavy price for a calamity that is by far the biggest government made disaster since Independence. As the state crawls out from a landscape of debris, it appears as the most imposing symbol of a system that is in comatose, though not d
Only a drastic change in policy and management will put Ma jestic Auto on the fast track. As of now, the company is simply an also ran
Another “developing” divide
Industry is forcing bad calories upon people, especially the poor
Good regulatory mechanisms are also necessary to reduce industrial emissions
A credit unworthy government put paid to eco development
radioactive wastes: A Pakistani senator recently accused the country's nuclear authorities of dumping radioactive waste near a village in the Punjab province causing cancer, miscarriages, and
"The geographical location of the Northeast is very fragile. If many polluting industries start spurting all over the region, with no treatment plants and sewage all over the place, there will be
Source: N Mattson 1998, GENIE: An energy systems model with uncertain learning, quoted in Anon 1999, A GENIE for Imperfect Foresight, IEA/OECD ETSAP News, June
D eath and earthquakes do not come by appointment. However, an earthquake gives definitive indications of its arrival. In Gujarat, there were many. A 4.2 magnitude quake rocked the Rann of Kachhch
india has finally taken note of the correlation between health and economic deve-lopment. The Union government has set up the National Commission on Macro-economics and Health to understand the link
Turn of fate: Oyster fishers of Louisiana, us, received a major setback when the Louisiana Supreme Court rejected their us $1.3 billion claim of loss of livelihood due to a coastal restoration
The government of Australia's Victoria state has charged the country's federal government with discontinuing crucial research on cutting the emission of greenhouse gases (ghgs) merely on pecuniary