Pachyderm vs human

Marauding elephants in Assam's Kaziranga national park killed 70 people last year

Vanishing forests

The dense foliage around the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe is fast disappearing

Farmers panic

THAILAND

High anxiety

The 20th century has taught us one thing. Use natural resources in a sustainable way or perish

RWANDA

UNITED NATIONS

Powai Lake dying

The turmoil beneath

How landslides of the 1998 kind in Garhwal can be prevented

On a felling spree

Unkindest cuts

An amendment to the Orissa forest act gives sweeping powers to forest officials

Brazil

KENYA

KENYA

Cops under cloud

SC takes note of police involvement in timber smuggling in Madhya Pradesh

Far from an eyewash

Is new-age environmentalism narrowing down to planting saplings?

Planting saplings is undoubtedly a good idea, but considering it as the panacea to all our environmental woes is dangerous

The Yellow River has been known as ‘China’s sorrow’. Now we know who was responsible

Deforestation, erosion on the Loess Plateau caused the Chinese to construct levees to tame the river, in turn, worsening the risk of flooding

Less than a quarter of emission targets from Paris climate agreement met in 7 years

World is not on track to achieve forest goals of ending and reversing deforestation by 2030

What Aarey case means for forest land classification

The question of classification of the land as forest or revenue isn’t relevant in the matter due to the SC order in the TN Godavarman …

Road expansion, deforestation shrinking wildlife in Congo Basin: Study

Accelerating deforestation could also leak carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, contributing to the greenhouse effect

Kerala floods: Government was warned long back, but it chose to ignore

Ignoring experts’ recommendations on protecting fragile ecology of Western Ghats, Kerala had chosen development over environment

Deforestation rate slowed down: FAO

The pace of loss of forests has slowed in recent years even though the world’s forest area decreased from 31% to 30% between 1990 and 2015

Dust storms to become more intense if degradation of Aravallis continues

Withering of Aravallis, mainly due to erosion of forests along the northern and central tracts, is making dust storms more intense

Planting problems

Forest development corporations fell rich forests to raise plantations, undermining people's rights and biodiversity. It's time India introduced …