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?
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, …
Homeless blues
THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S REFUGEES. A HUMANITARIAN AGENDA·UNHCR, Oxford University Press, UK·Rs 625
Cementing Ties
Wherever there is construction, there is corruption. The foundation of most projects rests on commissions, bribes and kickbacks
Divide And Rule
Policies that alienate the people from control over their habitat can cost the country dearly in terms of green cover and air and water quality
The Root Of All Evil
Laws meant to protect the forests are doing exactly the opposite. Funds for afforestation programmes are pocketed by the corrupt and land remains …
Eaten hollow
The sal heartwood borer is all set to destroy sal forests in Madhya Pradesh. But this would not have been possible without the assistance of an …
How development loses meaning
The abstract noun 'development' is firmly a part of the public relations language governments use today. But after a recent ordinance passed by …
Trees are our only livelihood
Meghalaya's west Khasi hills. He shares with Centre for Science and Environment media fellow P Madhavan his experience of the charcoal trade
'Amazon region under threat from oil drilling, mining'
Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon, considered to be the most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystem on Earth, is witnessing expansion of new fossil fuel …
These methods can help in sustainable pasture management
Forming a pasture land development committee at the local level is necessary for the development, protection and maintenance of pastures
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 15, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Polycrisis at a Kanker village: ‘With every tree chopped, I became poorer’
Villages in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region enter economic recession as a new railway line brings the world closer to them
Missing: One-third of India’s recorded forests
25.87 million hectares: That is the size of forest missing from the latest assessment of India’s green cover. Does this land exist? Is it …
‘Earth Overshoot Day’ has shifted back to July 29
This means humanity has used all biological resources that the Earth regenerates during the entire year by July 29, the same date as in 2019
Outbreak of infectious diseases linked to change in forest cover, finds study
Outbreaks of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases linked to deforestation increased between 1990 and 2016
Chamoli disaster: What lesson can Himachal learn
More than a dozen organizations from the hill state have come together to highlight dangers of climate change, exacerbated by exploitation of land,…
Deforestation rate globally declined between 2015 and 2020: FAO report
While the world lost 178 million hectares of forest in the last 30 years, the rate of net forest loss declined
Survival of rarest birds found in eastern Himalayas at risk
Deforestation, shifting cultivation and conversion of forests for plantations have led to massive loss of forests
Haryana police encroaches upon forest land to build training centre, residential complex: RTI
At both the sites, the cops have not procured any permissions and cut thousands of fully grown trees
Human-bear conflict in Kashmir can be solved
Though human-bear conflict in the Kashmir Valley has shown a sharp increase in the last one-and-a-half decade, it can be solved by proper strategy