Bangladesh's "river gypsies" have followed their traditional nomadic lifestyle for centuries. Today, their boats are broken, and they are struggling to save their sinking culture. Bijoyeta Das reports. ...

Cultivating the indigenous brown cotton has brought economic empowerment to the women of Adaklu in Ghana and their families. ...

Female genital mutilation is a horrific practice still prevalent in Ghana. However, signs of change are starting to show, as Npong Francis reports from Ghana's Upper East region. ...

India's purple frog may soon become history - but what's the furor over a small amphibian? Loss of biodiversity is loss of our own habitat, writes Pabitra Mukhopadhyay. ...

Many Kenyans remain optimistic about the political and economic future of their fragile democracy despite the violent crisis that followed the 2007 election. ...

The campaign for the Robin Hood Tax, a financial transactions tax (FTT) to tackle poverty and climate change, has hotted up in recent months. ...

Interview with Vice-Chair of the Bureau of the Preparatory Committee for Rio+20, Czech Professor Bedřich Moldan. He openly expresses his disbelief in a bold outcome of the event. What is more, he reveals his opinion whom to blame for it. ...

Lady Jackson/Barbara Ward (1914-1981 ) was a pioneer  of today’s well known and most important concept: "Sustainable Development”. She was the first who enlightened and seeded this idea to the public world in its context known today. Barbara Mary Ward (1914 – 1981), in later life Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, was a British economist and writer interested in the problems of developing countries. She urged W ...

A sequel of four articles by Anna Zhou, Diêgo Lôbo and Pabitra Mukhopadhyay. In the first part the authors discuss the multidimensional debates in the run up to Rio+20 and possibility of BRICS role in finding a way through the confusion. ...

For several weeks now, various stakeholders here in my country, the Philippines, have been debating, clashing and trading barbs through the media on the benefits of mining. On one side, giant mining companies, which earn big from the business, are defending the benefits of mining. It helps the local communities they say. On the other side, environmentalists and local communities are stressing that mining do ...