Tree's a crowd

The loggers' chainsaws may not spell doom for tropical forest lands after all

Vanishing 'green'

Nature's fury

Tree travails

The Union government asks the Supreme Court to lift the interim ban on tree felling amid growing pressure from the northeastern states

Law versus environment

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Unholy nexus

And you thought tissue was no issue

Fallacy in figure

During the 1980s the rate of destruction of natural forests was reduced as compared to the 1970s. Most of the deforestation took place in the …

Putting trees before human life

On a single day in 1731, more than 350 persons -- 69 of them women -- sacrificed their lives to protect their trees from being felled in Jalnadi …

Power crunch in paradise

Port Blair, port city of the Andamans, is in a developmental cul de sac

Wild & fragile

The Western Ghats in the south of India have forests which are, for some plant species, their exclusive home on this earth. No wonder then, that …

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

2030 तक नष्ट हो जाएंगे 112,000 वर्ग मील के दायरे में फैले प्राकृतिक आवास

एक अध्ययन से पता चला है कि शहरीकरण का सबसे अधिक असर उष्णकटिबंधीय वनो पर पड़ रहा है। जहां शहरी क्षेत्रों का तेजी से ...

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 …

Forests, tribals and wildlife are not rivals, says environment minister

Anil Madhav Dave inaugurates two-day conference of senior-level forest officers from states

Myanmar will import timber to save its own forests

The resource-rich country has lost 10 million hectares of forest cover since 1990

Norway and the US agree to collaborate on forests and climate change

The statement recognises the importance of forests and land use in mitigating climate change