Concrete loss

F for forest and furniture

When the water begins to stink

...Yet another rainforest disappears and a way of life dies as "development" catches up with the Guaranis of Paraguay

If you want to read a book

...the near universal necessity of being the owner of a book to read it needs immediate and drastic revision

A motley crew of forest protectors

In Karnataka's Kodagu district, a group of people battling timber traders trying to exploit their region's virgin forests has earned the wrath of …

The parching of India's Venice

Kerala finds its rivers drying up and beginning to die

Shifting greening options

Is jhum cultivation still a viable option for the future?

Desertification: Forest cover on the planet continues to shrink

The rate of deforestation has slowed down after 2005 yet forest cover on the planet continues to shrink, says a preliminary assessment report by …

Delhi tree felling: Absent forest policy, absentee Tree Authority

Between 2014 and 2017, the government planted 28,12,000 trees against the target of 36, 57,000, leaving a shortfall of 845,000 trees

Squirrels now use plastic to build their nests

In urban areas, trees are scarce but plastic material is not

Andaman & Nicobar grapples with tourist influx, deforestation and scars of 2004 Tsunami

Islands in Flux: The Andaman and Nicobar Story is a collection of writings by Pankaj Sekhsaria on problems the archipelago has been facing in the …

Around the world, environmental laws are under attack in all sorts of ways

Essential environmental safeguards are being conveniently downsized, diminished, ignored or swept under the carpet all over the world

Barren horizon

Inverse proportion: species quantum and carbon dioxide

The extinction of species decreases plant productivity and impairs the functions of an ecosystem -- like mopping up carbon dioxide

People goaded to save their forests

Fed up with government inaction on mining and deforestation in the Aravallis, the people of the region are taking it upon themselves to end the …

Inverted camouflage

A Cash-hungry Russia eyes its Siberian coniferous forests

The Siberian forests are facing the axe from a Russia eager to top the financial potencial of its timber.

Not all green is healthy

KAMPUCHEA

Viper wiper

Lost in the deep woods

Himalayan plunder

Tourism has wreaked havoc on Sikkim's natural resources

Cutting disgrace

Increased demand for timber in Pakistan has prompted poor tribals to sell their trees as a means of generating income

MAHAKALI MATTERS

INDIA