Making a beginning

Community management of natural resources is still in the nascent stage

Corals, maths and satellites

A new mathematical formula will scan satellite images to study changes in coral reefs

NEEDED: A WAKE-UP CALL

Foresters need to throw away their blinkers. Scientists need to prioritise areas of research

Flight to extinction

One in eight birds will vanish in the next 100 years, says a new report

A fine balance

The business of ecotourism is set to boom worldwide. Who will gain and who will lose?

Rudderless

Ecotourism is the new buzzword in the Indian government

The enterprise

Keeping both the environment and economy afloat

G8, developing countries launch Potsdam Initiative

Sri Lanka's Tree Frogs

INDIA

Jumbo problem

Spate of elephant killings forces rethink of conservation policy

The god of ecological things

Wetland crisis

Industrial activity threatens the wetlands of east Calcutta

Growing organic tea in northeast India is a difficult task

A third of freshwater fish face extinction: Report

As many as 16 species were declared extinct in 2020 alone

Prevention, not mitigation needed to solve South Africa’s plastic problem: WWF

Interventions needed across plastic value chain rather than just waste management

Ancient fossil throws light on earliest migrants from Africa

Humans might have interbred with Neanderthals

Indonesia’s forests degrading fastest in the world, palm oil blamed

About 40 per cent of total forest loss occurred within protected forest lands

Pine pressure

Pine culture has altered the Himalayan landscape with disastrous effect on its fragile ecology

Deep sea blues

Bad news for the oceans, is bad news for the environment, the economy and humans

Hold tight

Behold: eco-development is here, again

After dosage

Will the idea of eco-development survive?

Conserve or pickle?

Eco-development in India had no clue

Lost in transit

A gravy train called eco-development, now derailed

Imagining IEDP

A US $67 million question: how would the eco-development project money be spent?