Quarter of the Amazon at point of no return, says new report; still possible to save remainder

Some 66% of the Amazon is subject to some type of constant or permanent pressure

Deforestation increases frequency of thunderstorms locally in West Africa: Study

Study shows storm frequency has doubled in the region in 30 years

Myanmar will import timber to save its own forests

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

Land is not enough for rehabilitation

Eight million traditional artisans in the country are threatened by industrialisation

USA gives in to loggers

The nature of malaria

A new project is analysing several natural parameters that aid the spread of malaria

Irangate replay across the Atlantic

A controversy is brewing in Britain over the linking of development aid to an arms deal

Parched future

GABON

MADAGASCAR

Trees at risk

BIG CATS FACE EXTINCTION

Road through Corbett

Arresting tactics

A social activist who investigated the Bastar forest scam lands up in police custody

Brazil

VIETNAM

Victims of modernisation

Tribal communities of Andaman and Nicobar Islands face extinction

MEXICO

Vanishing trees

DEFORESTATION

Suicidal mission

MEXICO

Fatal catalyst

Deforestation spurs malaria

Felling favoured

Death of a Neem tree

An open letter to the Prime Minister