Western expansionism caused more carbon emission

The economics of empowerment

Wasting the east

PAKISTAN

Islander's doom

Brazil

Business as usual

Tackling Corruption

Fighting corruption requires a determined response

Ominous signs

INDONESIA

Rodent menace

The plague of Samar Island

Ailing Afghanistan

In Brazil’s rainforests, the worst fires are likely still to come

Bolsonaro inherited weakened environment laws that he seems to be bent on weakening further

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 6, 2023)

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

About 20,000 tonnes of Red Sanders were smuggled from India between 2016 and 2020: Report

Heartwood of Red Sanders is in demand in the domestic and international markets for making furniture, handicrafts and musical instruments

More than 75% of Amazon rainforest near tipping point, may transform into dry savanna: Study

Researchers say it is not too late to act; reducing deforestation will protect the forest’s threatened parts and boost Amazon rainforest …

Brazil lost rainforest the size of Jamaica in 2019-2020: Institute

There was a 9.5 per cent jump in deforestation of the Brazillian Amazon since 2019, in line with President Jair Bolsonaro’s anti-…

To save Tamil Nadu from water crisis, prevent deforestation in Western Ghats: study

The effect of deforestation is felt more during deficit years than monsoon surplus years

Punjab, Haryana among the states with least forest cover; the problem runs deep

Are we ignoring the mounting ecological deficit that the country accumulates year after year?

Things fall apart: why do the ecosystems we depend on collapse?

From fisheries to forestry, there's a pattern to collapsing ecosystems and industries. If we can predict them, maybe we can avoid the damage.

The world's carbon stores are going up in smoke with vanishing wilderness

The world has lost 10 per cent of its wilderness areas in the past 20 years and, with it, vast stores of carbon

Ensuring human survival

"The future of human civilisation could depend on our ability to defend and make sustainable use of biological diversity," he adds. FAO recently …

NGOs launch new war -- against deforestation

Non-governmental organisations in Ethiopia are working to create awareness among rural communities to protect the country's forest cover

Making science, technology serve the people

For R S Hegde, a primary school principal and rural technologist, science is useless if it remains confined to labs and libraries.

The land rush

STRUGGLE FOR LAND AND THE FATE OF THE FORESTS Edited by Marcus Colchester and Larry Lohmann Publisher: The World Rainforest Movement, Malaysia, …