Dial tol-free
Not a blade of grass
...although the now bald pate of Iceland was once resplendent with grass and verdant willow, rowan and birch forests
A motley crew of forest protectors
In Karnataka's Kodagu district, a group of people battling timber traders trying to exploit their region's virgin forests has earned the wrath of …
The parching of India's Venice
Kerala finds its rivers drying up and beginning to die
Shifting greening options
Is jhum cultivation still a viable option for the future?
The axe and human civilisation
The use and abuse of wood is a major theme in the history of humankind according to a new book, A Forest Journey
A Himalayan plunder
RITA ANAND looks at changes in Himalayan forest cover in historical perspective, focusing on the Kaghan Valley in northern Pakistan
Saved from the axe
Spirited village women in Himachal Pradesh save a clump of deodar trees from being chopped by mercenary woodcutters.
Of barren hills and barrel smoke
Militancy has destroyed much more than peace in Kashmir. Kalashnikov-trotting extremists are ravaging the last green frontiers of the 'heaven on …
Saving the earth
Techniques developed by villagers in Himachal Pradesh can be integrated into plans to reclaim rocky wasteland in the hills
Putting trees before human life
On a single day in 1731, more than 350 persons -- 69 of them women -- sacrificed their lives to protect their trees from being felled in Jalnadi …
Power crunch in paradise
Port Blair, port city of the Andamans, is in a developmental cul de sac
Wild & fragile
The Western Ghats in the south of India have forests which are, for some plant species, their exclusive home on this earth. No wonder then, that …
Assessing poverty-deforestation links: evidence from Swat, Pakistan
This blog is based on a paper that contributed to the debate on the links between poverty and forestry degradation; the view that due to poverty …
Death by starvation
About 11 million people in Orissa and Bihar have become victims of a famine that has occurred despite adequate food stocks in the country.
Still in the Woods
The second Intergovernamental Panel on Forests discussed a lot of issues, yet remained more of a warm up for the final session
Green puzzle
A cross-section of opinions in response to 'Dark truths and lost woods' (pages 31-41) by ANIL AGARWAL
Death of a Neem tree
An open letter to the Prime Minister
Drowned
Assam's Dhemaji district faces extermination by floods
There's more to trees than timber
New thinking on forestry management calls for reducing the emphasis on sustainable timber production and concentrating instead on the protection …
Wisdom from an obscure archipelago
In Down To Earth's first Country Report, ANIL AGARWAL and SUNITA NARAIN look at Papua New Guinea, its short but volatile transition to the market …
Fights for space
Once harmonious, the human-elephant relationship has taken an ugly turn. Faulty forest policies and nationwide destruction of elephant habitats …
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 …
Stark facts: Forest destruction
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another”- M K …