Farmer's right

A new draft of the Union for Protection of New Plants Varieties protects the rights of the farmers

Review of 'Trees of Delhi', a book by Pradip Krishen

Book>>Trees of Delhi A Field Guide by Pradip Krishen Penguin Books India>> Dorling Kindersley 2006

Global Eco Watch: Chinese pink dolphin numbers rise in Pearl river estuary

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Plant roots mysteriously pulsate and we don’t know why – but finding out could change the way we grow things

To really understand how plants grow, you need to look at processes which happen inside cells.

Global Eco Watch: A cooling event caused rice to spread across Asia 4,200 years ago

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Troubled botanists

Biodiversity under threat worldwide

Marigold magic

An insecticide obtained from marigold flowers is effective against mosquito larvae

Protests galore

Activists protest against mindless development in Uttara Kannada district

In the safety net

Spy vs spy

The war of wits that goes on between plants and viruses

Home remedy

Tanzania

Going to seed

Crowded out

Human threat to biodiversity

Rich, suddenly

Ladakh's people get key to seabuckthorn 'goldmine'

Auto-recovery

Veins tell it all

Arrangement of veins control carbon, water intake in plants

Benefits of self-rejection

Evolution favours plants that rely on cross-pollination

From The Blurbs

Book Excerpt: A guide to the Peninsula’s indigenous floral wealth

Many in southern India are unaware that the region hosted and still hosts unique botanical life

One-third of Africa's tropical plant species are on the verge of extinction

A large part of western Africa, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo could lose 40 per cent of their trees, shrubs, herbs and …

The Earth's biodiversity could be much greater than we thought

A widely touted study proposes a total of 8.7 million species, but they could be 10 times more

Mira Behn: A friend of nature

The urge to be close to nature guided Madeleine Slade, who came to be known as Mira Behn, throughout her life

Genetic theft by Kew botanists

An ongoing debate in the UK questions the ethics behind the acquisition by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew of acquiring tropical plants through …