Japan faces the first real test of its readiness to battle global warming since the launch of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on green-gas emissions. On March 19, the Japanese Government announced new

Noted USA-based bio-technologist Dr. C S Prakash today stated that economic development of the region was a must for preservation of bio-diversity hotspots in North East India. Bio-diversity

Iliterate peasant women in Andhra Pradesh have taken huge strides towards bio-diversity conservation. Women of Medak in Andhra Pradesh produced a Biodiversity Action Plan under the NBSAP, aimed at

Power generation has received a serious set-back after Lower Jhelum Power Project developed snag at Uri, Jammu and

India has sought changes in the existing TRIPs agreement to include provisions for the protection of traditional knowledge and preventing bio-piracy. Other developing countries have supported the

The US government is supporting Rajendra K Pachauri, director general of Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI), as chairman of UN's International Climate Change Group. Pachauri is being supported by

Canadian Industry Minister Allan Rock denied this week that Ottawa was giving mixed signals on whether it still supports the Kyoto protocol to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But Rock also told a

The Bush administration, at the urging of the world's biggest oil company, ExxonMobil, is trying to oust Robert Watson, the British scientist and chairman since 1996 of the panel that has advised the

UK greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to decline, but emissions of carbon dioxide - the main greenhouse gas - have increased for the second year in succession. So says a new report by the

Scientists studying in the impact of global warming are forecasting that the phenomenon would further increase disease, famine and poverty in Africa. In a report, the Intergovernmental Panel on