In this interview on Radio DTE, Down to Earth Senior Editor Latha Jishnu speaks on biopiracy and explains how access and benefit sharing rules are affecting the world's genetic resources.
Small initiatives to save energy can go a long way in curbing emissions. To understand the ecological cost of power generation with hydel dams or thermal plants, think of the damage such dams cause to complex ecosystems in our hills and forests.
The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill of 2010 stipulates that companies share 26 per cent profits from mining with project affected people besides paying for community development as part of corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Cities all over the world are trying to ease congestion on roads , check car population to free their road space and this latest special report in Down To Earth finds out where India is headed and what lessons can the country learn from them.
THE Union environment ministry has written to Orissa's principal secretary (forests) directing the state to stop work on the Korean steel giant POSCO's plant in Jagatsinghpur district.
Cities all over the world are trying to ease congestion on roads. Not the chocked Indian cities, through. Time to make cars in India pay the real cost of using roads.
BLACK carbon, or soot, was known as a threat to only the public health until 2007 when the UN climate agency, IPCC, said it is a major contributor to global warming after CO2.
At current rate seawater will turn acidic by century end. Human activities affect ocean dynamics. HUMAN activities are affecting the ocean, altering its composition and damaging it bit by bit. Several researchers have documented this, but as isolated cases.
