Terms of un-endearment

What should be the new terms of engagement?

Suspect diagnosis

World Bank's take on Indian forestry sector motivated

Talking the walk

Environment ministry caught lying

Its contempt of Parliament says committee on government assurances

Survey of surveyors

Is there hope yet for BSI, ZSI?

Copenhagen Diary

MoEF&CC takes back advisory to avoid honeycombing of forest land under FRA

An official from the environment ministry says the advisory was withdrawn as there is no provision under the Forest Rights Act to club land together

How clean are our forests?

The inordinate focus on cities and towns seems to suggest that garbage doesn’t occur elsewhere. But that is hardly so

Romancing the trees

After trees of Delhi, filmmaker and tree lover Pradip Krishen finds his muse in Central Indian forests

'It really riles me to see developing countries pushed into a corner'

Tough-talking Malaysian negotiator Wen Lian Ting explains why the North's stand on forests is morally unjust and politically untenable

Death of the Indus delta

It was from the port towns of this region that Arab dhows laden with merchandise set sail for distant towns in the days of yore. Today, …

Return of the woods

Two decades of toil have given back to Seed village in Udaipur a forest that villagers felt had been destroyed forever

Simply Put: Self goal at Belem

Simply Put: Perseverance vs preservation

Ten myths and fallacies about afforestation

It is no panacea for increasing green cover

CAMPA funds should be used to conserve nature

Increase in funding has not resulted in significant increase in forest cover

What is crippling India’s valuable teak plantations?

Instead of simply advocating for teak plantations, farmers should be sensitised to holistic packages encompassing not only cultivation techniques …

America’s urban timber movement

Instead of turning trees in urban areas into mulch or sending them to the sawmill, US cities are harvesting them locally, lessening their carbon …

‘Green should be the colour of the future’: Global bodies launch campaign to protect forests

Joint Call to Action for Forests to highlight need for increased action, political commitment to implement forest solutions in pursuit of SDGs

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

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

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 …

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