Forests

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 1, 2026)
Environment

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 1, 2026)

DTE Staff
4 min read
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Science has only recently started discovering the importance of biocrusts; the ‘restoration’ of Delhi’s Central Ridge is destroying these very chemical engineers
Forests

Science has only recently started discovering the importance of biocrusts; the ‘restoration’ of Delhi’s Central Ridge is destroying these very chemical engineers

Pradip Krishen
5 min read
Without biocrusts, much less life would exist in arid places; that’s why scientists call them the ‘living skin’ of arid soils
Adivasi campaigners seek dissolution of FRA task forces, alleging institutional bypass and parallel governance
Forests

Adivasi campaigners seek dissolution of FRA task forces, alleging institutional bypass and parallel governance

Himanshu Nitnaware
5 min read
The Campaign for Survival and Dignity says task forces in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh risk diluting the democratic framework of FRA and PESA, and wants statutory bodies strengthened instead
In Europe, forests may still be standing, but climate change is making it harder for them to reproduce
Agroforestry offers a sustainable pathway for small and marginal farmers in India’s rain-fed regions
Simply Put: Let our forests be
When mines closed, a hill healed: the Shankargarh model of community-led restoration
Maharashtra’s shift away from plantation targets is acknowledgement that ecological restoration is not only about forests
Simply Put: Housing crisis
As anti-Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh intensified, so did the backlog of pending FRA claims, analysis shows
Uttarakhand’s van panchayats survived the British. They may not survive a state steadily governing communities out of their own forests
Two key targets — reversing forest loss and eliminating extreme poverty among forest-dependent populations remain off track, finds UN report
How the world’s poorest remain insulated from their $1.5 trillion annual forest economy
Fuelwood demand emerges as major driver of global forest loss: UN report
In parts of Kashmir, the quiet act of laying the dead to rest extracts an unintended cost: Trees
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