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Race for rights to ocean’s genetic resources
August 16, 2019
As negotiations for the High Seas Treaty enter the final phase, countries are split over principles to govern exploitation
To tackle climate change, rethink what you eat
August 15, 2019
The global food system is broken, but it can be fixed
More than 1,700 activists have been killed this century defending the environment
August 14, 2019
At least three Indian journalists have been killed by the illegal sand mining mafia in the last five years; here is a look at the state of affairs around the world
Hydropower projects ruining lives in the Himalayas
August 13, 2019
Run–the-river projects no better than reservoirs
Flawed embankment strategy converts Bihar into watery grave
August 12, 2019
The engineering solutions put in place to tackle the issue of floods has created more problems than solutions in Bihar, says former IIT professor and doyen of water experts Dinesh Mishra
Book review: Gun Island closes a circle
August 09, 2019
In his latest novel Ghosh brings insights from a range of his old works to his new passion, climate-fiction