The country’s rag pickers have expressed “absolute happiness” in having found mention in a rule notified by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) earlier this week, the first time they have been “recognised” in Indian law. There are an estimated 15 lakh men and women who eke out a living by rummaging through garbage

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Posco was cleared because it is India’s largest FDI project and the South Korean government lobbied for it. Such things don’t happen in democracies which respect the rule of law, says Praful Bidwai. Our rulers have found a new vocation or cause — maligning environmentalists and questioning the very idea of regulating industry against pollution.

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The energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) for China’s major energy intensive industries decreased by more than 20 percent during the 2006-2010 period, the statistics authorities have reported. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) attributed the rising energy efficiency for the industries to the government’s growing investment in energy savings, and the

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Global greenhouse gas emissions are set to double by 2030 without an effective response to pollution, the Gillard government’s key climate adviser says. Professor Ross Garnaut on Friday released the third update of his 2008 report on climate change. The eminent economist forecast a doubling of global carbon emissions between 2005 and 2030 if nothing

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That weather-related catastrophes cause a lot of destruction is well known. But the prospect that increasing floods, droughts and storms will prompt many millions of people to migrate to safer areas is still poorly understood and anticipated, according to a forthcoming report from the Asian Development Bank. “In the past year alone, extreme weather in

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