Simply Put: Unbearable heat

India faces severe decline in farmland trees, major losses in Maharashtra and Telangana

Study notes that trees such as jackfruit, jamun, mahua, neem and others offer shade and other livelihood to small farmers

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 16, 2024)

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

Ghana’s forests are being wiped out: What’s behind this and why attempts to stop it aren’t working

In 2022, Ghana had the highest relative increase in primary forest loss among all tropical countries

Madagascar’s ancient baobab forests are being restored by communities — with a little help from AI

Deforestation driven by slash-and-burn agriculture and vanishing of large-bodied animals that would spread the boabab seeds major reasons for decline

Climatisation caused by commercialisation has reduced forest governance to carbon sinks

State regulation and community-led initiatives could offer better pathways for effective forest governance, the report at UN Forum on Forests suggests

Severe environmental harm equal to genocide, crime against humanity: Experts write to International Criminal Court

Human activities leading to severe environmental harm also violate human rights; must be punished, they urge in joint statement

Even protected forest areas are significant source of CO2 emission: study

Most of the carbon-emitting protected areas are located in Brazil and Indonesia

Dial tol-free

Simply Put: Cleaning the air

Simply Put: The Earth goes bald

Simply Put: Missing the woods

Simply put: Road to development

Hacked heart

Why did they have to do it?

Destructive logging

Sami relief

Simply Put: Aarey online-offline

Simply Put: Perseverance vs preservation

Logging ban lifted

Saviours turn killers

Practise what you preach

Simply Put: Deforestation due to coal

Simple Put: The green activist vs the greed activist

Felled by an incentive

Unkindly cuts