S Shyam Sunder

A R Maslekar

UNITED NATIONS

Decline of the Aravallis

The pressure on land threatens the vivid and spectacular biodiversity of these hills

CAMBODIA

Europe deluged

Felling forbidden

Supreme Court order may benefit Andaman natives

CORBETT HIGHWAY

Rooting out felling

Andaman officials cite livelihood issue to justify logging

Paper question

Proposed pulp and paper plant revives debate on private access to degraded forestland

Indonesia’s forests degrading fastest in the world, palm oil blamed

About 40 per cent of total forest loss occurred within protected forest lands

A better option

Asian policymakers need to invest in environmental infrastructure to arrest ecodegradation

Null and void

Environmental degradation in Asia could impose an onerous burden on its people

Root causes

Factors that contribute to Asia's continuing environmental imbalances

Sullied cities

An entire gamut of environmental disturbances accost most Asian cities

Unholy mess

The Pampa river in Kerala is dying a slow death

Survival at stake

Death sentence

Preference to natives

Pine pressure

Pine culture has altered the Himalayan landscape with disastrous effect on its fragile ecology

Amazon forests threatened: 10% more wildfires than last year, environmental gains may be undone

Anthropogenic climate change has made the forests more prone to wildfires

SC slaps Rs 10 lakh fine on Mumbai metro, but permits felling of 177 trees in Aarey forest

Controversy over constructing a metro car shed inside Aarey has been brewing since 2014

Himalayan plunder: Ecology changing for the worse due to loss of forest cover, drying springs

States in the northeastern region faring the worst

Felling halted

Curbs on extraction of timber in Kerala's Wayanad district

Logging's out