Communities require policy support to manage forests well, says FAO

UN body recommends setting up forest and farm producer organisations so that small-scale forest producers can compete with large-scale business

Indian researchers decode function of non-coding part of human genome

Simple sequence repeats punctuate genome; discovery will help improve gene therapy

Rajasthan announces Project Great Indian Bustard

State's population of 100 bustards crucial for recovery of the critically endangered bird in India

Bhushan Steel’s Odisha unit in the dock for illegal expansion

Stock market research firms turn blind eye to the unit’s environmental violations

Evolution in times of climate change

The origins of some of our fundamental traits could lie in climate change

Towards food security: perspectives from three continents

The Food Insecurity Report 2014, released by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) last week, has revealed that one …

Indian companies' CDM projects pollute environment

Most clean projects cleared on face value and are based on tall claims

Environmental fallout of cooperation

Whether energy cooperation will benefit the environment or create problems in South Asia depends largely on whether hydropower is considered …

Words are biotic

Is it a coincidence that areas of linguistic plurality are also areas of biodiversity?