No free lunch for water projects

The concept of environmental flow appears unscientific, dangerous too

Less species, more diseases

Researchers blame increased human population

Biodiversity buffer

It can protect dryland from withering due to climate change

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

From forestry to productive forestry

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 …

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

Rajya Sabha passes the Constitutional Amendment Bill on GST

The move paves way for a uniform tax regime in India

Earthworms are more important than pandas (if you want to save the planet)

We focus on large, charismatic animals at the expense of these crucial "lowly creatures"

Call from cave

Bats, largely elusive till now, are slowly revealing their secrets as scientists record and analyse their calls

Earth has lost half of its ecosystem

Two-thirds of land-based ecosystems must be sustained to support life on the planet, says study

Forest value to be revised

50 per cent of net present value of forests should go to communities, says report

Green rider for GDP

World is moving towards natural capital as a measure of economic growth

Moneymakers

TO REVEAL OR NOT

Pay farmers for providing ecosystem services; make agriculture attractive: experts

A steady income for farmers will stem migration and reduce pressure on urban areas as rural people will stay back in villages

Lessons from Kakarapalli

Road map to save environment

A global map highlights regions where road construction will have high environmental costs

Rice at risk

Growing paddy is not viable for small farmers of Kerala. Will the state be able to preserve the crop which delivers a number of ecological …

Nature is being renamed 'natural capital' – but is it really the planet that will profit?

Nature conservation is becoming another way to make money