Forest act amendments will help India achieve Net Zero emissions targets: MoEFCC in joint committee report
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has sought to insert a preamble
Plantations, invasive species... what all India counts as ‘forest’
Forest survey should move beyond measuring area to studying quality of forests, say experts
Is Rally for Rivers based on impractical ideas?
Isha Foundation's Rally for Rivers initiative to plant trees alongside river banks appears impractical and lacks scientific rigour
India’s green cover has increased, but outside demarcated forests
Latest state of forests report shows increase of green cover by 5,871 sq km; most of the increase is owing to plantations
2022 too short, too far: Environment news you should not miss
Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022
India’s ‘missing’ forests: DTE analysis exposes big gap in latest national forest survey estimates
According to a DTE analysis, there are states where over 30-50 per cent of the land classified as forests is ‘missing’ from the …
Green India Mission grossly underfunded: Parliament panel
The panel also points out that green cover is being increased just to meet targets and without considering soil, weather conditions
Desertification setting in across a quarter of India
Another 30% of the county’s land is undergoing degradation. What does this mean for the country where more than 60% peopel depends on …
Only people's participation in eco-projects can combat corruption
Suresh P Prabhu looks back on his tenure as Union minister for environment and forests and speaks to Lian Chawii and Kazimuddin Ahmed on the …
How MGNREGA is promoting climate-smart villages
The works include constructing percolation tanks, households living in the catchment area for construction of check dams, afforestation, contour&…
Western Ghats at risk: Deforestation data drives home point again
Loss recorded across four districts of Karnataka, according to data from Global Forest Watch
Why we need to factor ecosystem services into economic development planning
The multiplier effects of healthy forest cover are enormous in terms of economic, social development objectives
Green cover in tribal areas increases
Green activists and tribal community have been fighting against government-aided coal and mine expansion programmes for long now
Grabbing land for green cover
Paper forests: India’s missing stretches of green
The most bad news is what the biennial forest survey report leaves unsaid
Half of global cropland expansion replaced natural vegetation and tree cover: Study
The largest cropland expansion was observed in Africa which was 34 per cent
Ireland has lost almost all of its native forests — here’s how to bring them back
Around 80% of the island of Ireland was once green
Myanmar will import timber to save its own forests
The resource-rich country has lost 10 million hectares of forest cover since 1990
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Ominous signs
Over 57k hectares of forest land diverted in Odisha, says new report
Most of the forest land (28,409 hectares) was diverted for 186 mining projects
Shrinking cover
Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate the world-over, says a recent study
Climate change may reduce carbon dioxide uptake by forests: Study
Tree growth in Arizona will decline 22-117% under future climatic conditions
UNCCD CoP: Centre unclear how states are spending money allotted for forests
The 14th Finance Commission had given 7.5 per cent weightage to forest cover