Price of nature

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No free lunch for water projects

The concept of environmental flow appears unscientific, dangerous too

Natural injustice

What are oyster reefs?

A friend in weed

Don’t just count the trees

Quality of forests is as important as tree cover

Less species, more diseases

Researchers blame increased human population

Natural bad debt

Land yields much more than crops

Biodiversity buffer

It can protect dryland from withering due to climate change

Farm differently

Report>>A report riles industrial farming nations and agribusiness

India must factor in ecological loss while calculating GDP: experts

Experts at the 3rd National Dialogue on Himalayan Ecology called for assessing the value of ecosystem services in monetary terms

A promising pathway

Rio+20, green economy and India

Rainforest route to clean economy

Kyotos successor should put an economic value to rainforests. A recent treaty shows how

Taking stock of biodiversity

The Convention on Biological Diversity, 20 years on, is still struggling to stem the precipitous decline in biodiversity. After missing the 2010 …

From forestry to productive forestry

Value of deforestation?

Debate over effects of biomass extraction in forests

World shrinks for oysters

Prayers for a little

Rivers’ flows must be maintained to protect the services they provide, but India has no legislation  

Paying farmers for ecological services

Soon: India’s first REDD project

Forest conservation effort in Meghalaya can claim carbon benefits

One-fifth of ecosystems in danger of collapse – here’s what that might look like

Recovering an ecosystem’s original state may be impossible because the external conditions that it depended upon simply no longer exist

India Inc’s new bogey

Industry raises the decibel against green clearances

No freeloaders