September 7, 2010: Stockholm, (2010-09-06) – 2,500 leading water experts are convening in Stockholm for the 20^th annual World Water Week, which opened this morning with calls for better facilitated efforts addressing escalating global water challenges.

September 7, 2010, Geneva: The informal climate change ministerial talks in Geneva hosted by the Swiss government to overcome the hurdle of tong-term financing of mitigation and adaption measures and its regulation on climate change evoked mixed responses from the players and NGOs.

September 7, 2010: Urging the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to take strict action against polluting industrial units, Union minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh on Monday said the Centre has approved a multicrore bioremediation project to clean the highly polluted Budha Nullah.

September 7, 2010: The government's new-found zeal on environment protection – led by Jairam Ramesh with the backing of Rahul Gandhi – was sought to be tempered by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday when he advocated a middle path by saying that while environmental concerns were important and needed to be heeded, that should not lead to "perpetuation of poverty" or a return to the "licence-permit raj".

September 6, 2010: Hope of progress on a global climate deal at the year-end Cancun summit is rapidly dimming with rich countries backtracking on their commitment to provide climate funds. Finance is a key issue for rebuilding trust among developing and developed countries.

September 6, 2010: The Punjab government Monday asked the union government to declare the Shivalik ranges as a biosphere reserve area.

September 6, 2010: The union government has ordered a probe into recent reports about the presence of cancer-causing uranium in drinking water of various villages in Bathinda district of Punjab.

September 6, 2010, (PTI): Alleging that Union Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh has been "acting on behalf of China", the influential Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union (AAPSU) today threatened not to allow him to land here on September 11 when he was scheduled to visit the state.

September 6, 2010: Biopiracy, which is gradually robbing India of its precious assets and rich bio-diversity, has emerged as one of the biggest concerns before the union environment and forests ministry.

September 5, 2010: Realising it was losing the turf war with the hyperactive Union Ministry of Environment and Forests on a subject that has become a top priority for the United Progressive Alliance government, the once comatose Tribal Affairs Ministry has, in recent weeks, suddenly begun to assert its rights over its responsibilities.