MEXICO

Vanishing trees

DEFORESTATION

Suicidal mission

MEXICO

Fatal catalyst

Deforestation spurs malaria

Felling favoured

Death of a Neem tree

An open letter to the Prime Minister

Uprooting spree

Cut it out

1997 repeated

How tribals are conned out of their timber

Doubts sown

Will new deforestation fund management system work?

Rice, integral to Madagascar, may be hastening the decline of its unique biodiversity; here is how

Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot; most of the plants, animals, insects and fungi found there are not found anywhere else  

Indigenous lands have less deforestation than state-managed protected areas in most of tropics

Roughly 15 per cent of the world’s land surface is under official state protection

Tropical forests losing capacity to cycle carbon and water, finds new tracking system

Between 15 per cent and 20 per cent of humid tropical forests have been cleared since the early 1990s 

Earth Day 2021: Why we need to pledge to save our forests

The last few years have seen us sabotage our own future by degrading our forests. It’s time we learn from our lessons and treat Mother …

Jammu’s Chipko moment: Green activists protest plan to chop 38,000 trees in Raika

The activists highlighted how the proposal was rushed through government departments for permissions  

Women power: Uttarakhand village women revive dry springs, end water woes

With the help of experts and through the community, they found a solution to their hardships

Walnut trees: Kashmir lockdown’s other victim

Walnut trees have been the strange casualty of Kashmir’s transition from a state to a Union Territory

October rainfall in Northeast ‘normal’ but not flash floods

According to environmentalists, the floods that crippled the region last month have been caused due to a number of anthropogenic reasons

Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (Dec 31-Jan 4)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Plantation drives not enough to fight air pollution

A sapling cannot do what a mature tree can as it takes it decades to be able to support environmental needs

Forest conservation: indigenous peoples invest less than other agencies, but achieve equal outcome

According to a recent study, indigenous people and local communities are able to conserve forests by investing only 16–23 per cent of the …

A decade-old plan to curb carbon emissions through forest conservation in Africa is yet to pay off

A UN-backed mechanism to curb carbon sequestration and ensure biodiversity conservation, REDD+, is compromising community rights. Is there a …

'Three of us were killed last year, but we continue to protect our forests'

Guardians of the Amazon, a tribe in the forests sent this message to the Brazilian government to help them protect an uncontacted tribe and their …