How forests can help in doubling farmers’ income

Forest rights, support for ecosystem services could be part of strategy to help farmers living in forests

Only 30% of tropical timber products in EU market are sustainable

Sustainable timber sourcing can protect over 5 million hectares of tropical forest, says a new report on sustainability of Europe’s timber …

Bamboo cultivation on India’s private lands can supply the incense stick industry

The incense stick industry can cut down on imports from East Asia if farmers grow bamboo locally

A tree grown outside forest is a tree protected inside forest

Can we do away with permits, allow forestry-based economy to grow and still increase forest cover, protect wildlife and conserve our ecology?

Tilting at poplar trees

Poplar is not behind the spike in allergy cases in Kashmir, yet the tree is being felled

Forests fire poets' imagination

Forests are vital not only for food and biodiversity, but our energy and creativity also find expression in them

How has India’s caste system lasted for so many centuries?

Caste system continues even after losing its raison d’etre, but the scramble for development has destroyed the ancient sustainable and …

SAIL gets pristine forest to mine

MoEF flouts its own order by expanding mine in Saranda without wildlife management plan

El Niño effect: Even in drought-tolerant forests, seedlings more likely to die

Scientists study effects of drought, find mortality higher in evergreen forests than deciduous ones

Coal mining to be allowed in non-forest areas after Stage I of forest clearance: Government

Environment ministry takes decision after coal ministry complains of delay in projects due to mining ban in these areas

Protect indigenous rights to save Amazon forest, urge leaders at COP28

Amazonian Indigenous leaders will be calling for urgent action to protect their rights, end industrial mining to pave way for Brazil COP

Mining's impact on Bonai's forests, people

New policy to revive agroforestry

The National Agroforestry Policy 2014 can substantially reduce poverty in rural India

Terai damming away its wildlife

ARGENTINA

A land in turmoil

An assessment of environmental degradation must preclude rebuilding of Afghanistan

Promised land

Kerala CM upbeat about 'forestland for tribals' scheme

Just deportation?

SC issues notice to Tripura government for re-starting relocation of tribals against orders

Under the axe

Forest areas continue to decrease though plantations are slowing down the rate of net loss

Why tigers fear Indian forest service officers

Firefighters all

Great depression of lac

Biggest producer Jharkhand worst hit—and clueless

Green tribunal bill

Fails to address core concerns

Sustainable peatland management can prevent future pandemics: Study

Peatlands harbour a variety of disease-spreading hosts; flora and fauna in them are also being harvested, increasing contact with humans

Forest Act amendments will dilute rights of indigenous groups in Himalayas: Activists

The bill is expected to be tabled for clearance during the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament