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Union government removes financial and ecological obligations on private plantations in forest areas
Himanshu Nitnaware
07 Jan 2026
4 min read
Move reignites a 30-year-old debate over opening forests to private industry to meet India’s paper demand
Forests
Kukrail Reserve Forest is Lucknow’s last green lung. But the state government is hell-bent on destroying it
Alok Singh
02 Jan 2026
7 min read
A legal battle to save the forest and Lucknow Zoo is raging, which will shape the credibility of environmental governance in India
Forests
How to listen to a forest
Lianganzi Wang
02 Jan 2026
3 min read
In England’s Alice Holt Forest, an innovative sound installation called Dendrophone transforms live forest data into an auditory experience, making climate change tangible
Institutional expertise meets judicial confusion in the Aravalli hills definition case
Sachin Pernacca Sashidhar
30 Dec 2025
7 min read
Supreme Court stays its recent verdict on defining Aravalli hills and ranges
Himanshu Nitnaware
29 Dec 2025
3 min read
Simply Put: Compensatory afforestation
Sorit Gupto
29 Dec 2025
1 min read
Legalising illegality: Here’s the case against ex post facto environmental clearances
Kanika Jamwal
26 Dec 2025
5 min read
The specifics of India’s timber trade
Vikas Choudhary
26 Dec 2025
1 min read
The Apatanis of Arunachal and their elegant bamboo craft
Vikas Choudhary
23 Dec 2025
1 min read
Beyond timber and tendu: How Gram Sabhas in Odisha’s Kalahandi reclaimed forests, livelihoods and self-rule
Nivedita Panda
23 Dec 2025
10 min read
Increasing demand for minerals used in renewables could further worsen mining-related deforestation in future: Study
Susan Chacko
23 Dec 2025
3 min read
Not ‘wastelands’: Western India’s savannas have existed for centuries, medieval Marathi literature reveals
Suhani Bhardwaj
11 Dec 2025
2 min read
The trees we don’t count: How India’s vanishing farmland canopy weakens climate resilience
Pradeep Mishra
06 Dec 2025
7 min read
Simply Put: Protect the trees
Sorit Gupto
04 Dec 2025
1 min read
India’s natural areas losing 15,500 sq km a year to fast-spreading invasive species
Himanshu Nitnaware
03 Dec 2025
4 min read
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