Top News: Our thoughts remain with people of Japan today as the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant reached another critical phase. Radiation is feared to have leaked after apparent hydrogen blasts at two more reactors. The Japanese government... Read more >

Record high levels of radiation have now been found near the Fukushima 1, nuclear facility following explosions at reactors 1, 2, 3 and 4. Radiation 9 times the background levels have been found near Tokyo.

A critical factor now is wind direction. Th... Read more >

In what should be good news for India’s neglected seas, Jairam Ramesh, Minister for Environment & Forest, has promised to address  the bias towards terrestrial biodiversity conservation in India, by getting his ministry to pay more attention to marine... Read more >

As a child, I really did not like the milk no matter how much my mother tried to put sugar or chocolate in it. I still don’t  like it much. This was a little issue when I grew up between my mother and me. Today I am a Greenpeace campaigner and I came ... Read more >

Days before the President of Indonesia is set to announce a moratorium on forest destruction, we’ve got a copy of the draft moratorium, crunched the numbers and the news is not good. The data shows this proposed moratorium does little to protect area... Read more >

The sweet fragrance of the soil after the rains, the lively brown-ness of recently ploughed fields, the pleasant crunch of grit as you bite into sweet carrots and mooli, the glistening sweat on the farmer's brow, the feel of wet soil in your hands a... Read more >