Go hunt'em

Punjab wants crop-mowing boars and blue bulls dead

IN FOCUS

MEXICO

Agricultural land rights for women

Also, share in joint family property; new bill passed

Watered down

Regular draining of water from rice fields reduces methane emissions

The Birds-II

Locust invasion

SAFE SPRAYER

Left high and dry

Drought-like spell in J&K spells doom for saffron farmers

Afforestation

Not for sale

Curbs on farmland transactions in Karnataka

Unproductive augmentation

Coke vs killer spray

Unproductive

Two meetings on revving up India's farm sector

Diseased fields

Dying paddy crops leave Kashmir valley farmers high and dry. The state government chips in late to combat the crisis

In a mess

South India's vanilla growers

A revolution misplaced

Apathy towards China's environmental degradation may seem a thing of the past. But the damage that has already occurred places a daunting task …

Cupfuls of misery

Nothing more than a vote-catcher, Andhra Pradesh's cheap rice scheme has resulted in an ecological disaster in its drought-prone areas

Desertification: Planet’s tree-covered areas fell by 35,204 sq km in 15 years

Countries party to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification meet to review the first global land degradation assessment

Logjam ban!

Logging bans fail to rectify the fundamental causes of deforestation

Battle zone: Humans vs elephants

Afterwards, an eerie silence envelops the field. There is only the crop -- no longer standing -- and the heavy tread gouged in the mud. This is …

Pact politics

High political drama marks climate negotiations as the European Union strives to ratify the Kyoto protocol without the US, world's biggest polluter