Science and Technology - Briefs

Treeless forest

How shrimp cultivation turned a mangrove forest into a saline desert

Of forests and wealth

It’s my land, not yours

How it is acquired

Amazon rainforest is drying out. How much more abuse can it take?

Amazon rainforest is one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. Preserving its trees is crucial to meeting international targets that limit …

The wasteland

Bellary has lost 45 per cent of its forest cover to iron ore mining, says the CEC report

Blood from Ebola survivors should be used to treat disease: WHO

Antibodies from the blood of patients who have recovered could be transferred to those who are suffering from the viral disease

Rethink growth with forest capital

Value of deforestation?

Green alert in Navi Mumbai

Bolsanaro’s environmental crimes come under EU scanner

Europe’s resolve to act against the Bolsonaro government’s environmental crimes appears to be strengthening

Ebola unleashed

The deadly virus had long confined itself to the backwoods of Africa. Increasing deforestation has led to its frequent emergence as epidemics

Himalaya's human face

HIMALAYA LIFE ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD·David Zurick and P P Karan·John Hopkins University Press Baltimore and London·1999&…

The battle over forests

Are the recent eviction drives misdirected? (Read full article)

Logjam

Whenever the Supreme Court pulls the trigger, why does it miss the target? Because governments like those of the seven Northeast states work …

Flight to extinction

One in eight birds will vanish in the next 100 years, says a new report

Law of no returns

Kings of forests

The control of Naxalites over forests is total and overwhelming

India

Natural burden

Hubballi-Ankola railway line will augur desertification, water crisis, warn experts

The proposed 164-kilometre railway project cutting through Western Ghats will prompt deforestation and accelerate climate change …

Indigenous people slam Peru government for unrestrained deforestation of Amazon

Around 13 per cent of original forest area deforested by 2014, according to a new report

SAIL gets pristine forest to mine

MoEF flouts its own order by expanding mine in Saranda without wildlife management plan

Koyna sanctuary plundered

Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary is threatened by ceaseless loot of land, with government help

Logjam ban!

Logging bans fail to rectify the fundamental causes of deforestation