States with more than 75% forest cover won't have to divert revenue land

Forest Advisory Committee decided this while suggesting that instead states with deficient green land should divert their non-forest land …

New ministry guidelines may increase the cost of diverting forests

The guidelines add new categories of costs that the project proponent is required to pay 

World set to lose India-sized forest cover by 2050

The report predicts that 289 million hectares of tropical forests will be cleared between 2016 and 2050

Hills of despair and hope

Book>> Unruly hills-nature and nation in India’s Northeast • by Bengt G Karlsson • Orient Blackswan, Social Science Press &…

A delicious affair

During a trekking trip to the Himalayan region of Uttarakhand, Chandra Prakash Kala discovers the succulent kafal fruit, which has found its way …

Green laws

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY IN INDIA: CASES, MATERIALS AND STATUTES By Shyam Divan and Armin Rosencranz •Second edition • Published …

What happened in Wayanad

It is not the first time that tribals of the Wayanad district in Kerala have rebelled against the state. In fact, the recent incident at the …

Uganda protests over sugar plantation on forestland

Cleared at cost of biodiversity

Environment ministry clears hydro project rejected twice by its advisory committee

The bogey of green clearances

Auto yes to coal

High powered panel recommends freeing coal blocks in forests

Disquiet in Dibang

Pug marks hide the truth

Reserved for exploitation?

Karnataka repeatedly refuses to declare its forests in Western Ghats inviolate

Bending rules

How Vedanta's refinery came up

Is it a forest?

How different agencies see it

6,944,608 trees cut across India in last three years: MoEF&CC

6.2 crore trees were planted in their place as compensatory afforestation

AMAZON

Unceremoniously dumped

Assam's evicted encroachers show legal proof of residence

Hope or hype?

CMP: thrust correct, implementation a challenge

Forest fraud

Senior official in the dock

Training forest officers

Lip service

Wooden feet

The catch all

Video>>Convenient Truth by FAO 2009