Price of nature

Book>> Payment for Ecosystem Services Edited By Pushpam Kumar and Roldan Muradian Rs 695

World Environment Day: We can tackle climate change through ecosystem restoration

We need to invest in research on ecosystems; we need governance that is multi-disciplinary and multi-agency and we need to protect what …

No free lunch for water projects

The concept of environmental flow appears unscientific, dangerous too

Natural injustice

What are oyster reefs?

A friend in weed

Don’t just count the trees

Quality of forests is as important as tree cover

Reworking of times past

In the race to make a fast buck from Jurassic Park, Spielberg lost a cinematic shot at recreating the complex ecosystem where dinosaurs ruled Earth

Without action, Asia-Pacific ecosystems could lose a third of their value by 2050

In the Asia-Pacific region, Afghanistan shows the greatest potential losses and gains

Less species, more diseases

Researchers blame increased human population

Natural bad debt

US derails UN declaration

Rejects key clauses on debt, trade, climate change

Impolitic moves

The recent Cabinet shake-up could spell trouble for India on the eco-conservation front

Land yields much more than crops

Biodiversity buffer

It can protect dryland from withering due to climate change

Farm differently

Report>>A report riles industrial farming nations and agribusiness

Earth has lost half of its ecosystem

Two-thirds of land-based ecosystems must be sustained to support life on the planet, says study

A promising pathway

Rio+20, green economy and India

FOREST FARE

Rainforest route to clean economy

Kyotos successor should put an economic value to rainforests. A recent treaty shows how

BELIZE

Ice ice baby

Satellite images revealing vast quantities of ice on Mars rekindle hopes about life existing on the planet

Taking stock of biodiversity

The Convention on Biological Diversity, 20 years on, is still struggling to stem the precipitous decline in biodiversity. After missing the 2010 …

From forestry to productive forestry

Value of deforestation?