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, …

Homeless blues

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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

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

'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 …

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