Need to focus on stable forests for climate change mitigation: Study
The research reveals that saving stable forests is more important than just preventing deforestation
Peafowl population is growing in Kerala. But are they threatening humans?
The human population is also on the rise. Does it pose a threat to the Earth’s environment and other species?
Palm oil and environmental, social challenges in India: The road ahead
Deforestation, damaging effects on the environment and human rights violation are among major challenges related to palm oil production
At least 420 million hectares forest lost since 1990: Survey
Impact of agricultural expansion on global deforestation almost 90%, says FRA remote-sensing survey
The global road-building explosion is shattering nature
Roads have sliced and diced almost the entire land surface of Earth, leaving huge areas prone to illegal logging, mining and hunting
World Wildlife Day: India’s conflict with elephants
Elephants stand at the focal point on the occasion of World Wildlife Day. In India, human-elephant conflict is increasing due to shrinking habitats
Global lungs or firewood for the poor?
Indiscriminate felling of trees to meet human and animal needs is not only depleting India's forest wealth at an alarming rate, but also …
Thais go on logging, despite ban
A UN ban on export of hardwood from Cambodia notwithstanding, Thai loggers continue to exploit loopholes and carry wood across the border.
Saved from the axe
Spirited village women in Himachal Pradesh save a clump of deodar trees from being chopped by mercenary woodcutters.
Of barren hills and barrel smoke
Militancy has destroyed much more than peace in Kashmir. Kalashnikov-trotting extremists are ravaging the last green frontiers of the 'heaven on …
Deep rumblings
Increase in incidence of earthquakes in Kerala, otherwise a seismically stable zone, is due to high sea pressure and changing land- use patterns
Heat and sawdust
The fires in Brazil and in Indonesia speak volumes of what happens when humans try to make a living by killing forests and neglecting the poor
Saving the earth
Techniques developed by villagers in Himachal Pradesh can be integrated into plans to reclaim rocky wasteland in the hills
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 16, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal
Paper forests: India’s missing stretches of green
The most bad news is what the biennial forest survey report leaves unsaid
Why reducing emissions from deforestation, forest degradation remains a challenge
Fund constraints and lack of clarity on implementation derails the progress of REDD+
Community leadership reduces deforestation, poverty: Nepal study
Deforestation was down 37 per cent, poverty fell 4.3 per cent between 2000 and 2012
This new tool can drive India’s eco-restoration initiatives; here’s how
The tool helps the user in identifying species that match their restoration objectives
Simply Put: Making way for parliament
Biennial Forest Survey Report: What does State of India’s Forest 2021 tell us
Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon
8.4 million soccer fields of land deforested in the Amazon over the past decade
Under stress
Biodiversity at risk in protected forest areas
BANGLADESH
Exaggerated losses
Villagers in charge