Less than a quarter of emission targets from Paris climate agreement met in 7 years

World is not on track to achieve forest goals of ending and reversing deforestation by 2030

DTE tracks trafficking: Droughts, migrating parents leave Marathwada girls vulnerable

Sugarcane cutters’ children at high risk, targeted through proxy marriages 

Kelp forests losing unique traits due to climate change, says study

Kelp populations at equatorward-range edges particularly vulnerable to climate change

Ground report: Climate disasters in Bihar, UP make children more vulnerable to trafficking

Trafficking rackets use climate disasters as opportunities, say experts

Need to triple investments for restoring degraded land by 2030: Seoul Declaration

The Declaration focuses on identifying key areas that can help combat multiple crises humanity faces

MoEFCC’s actual expenditure reduced by nearly 20% of budget estimates: Parliamentary report

The committee noted a drastic reduction under the National Coastal Mission 2023-24

New FCA rules not in compliance with FRA, endanger rights of tribals and forest dwellers

The new Forest Conservation Rules, 2022 were notified June 28 and will be put before both Houses of Parliament in the current session for approval

Phasi wood for Jagannath chariot this year entirely from private lands; forest loss, climate change affecting natural supply

Phasi and Dhaura trees take 50-100 years to mature; this poses a challenge to the annual construction of chariots in the Puri Jagannath Yatra

COP15 Montreal: Coalition calls for a moratorium on industrial activities in primary forests

Primary Forest Alliance calls for policy changes in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Update land records to include FRA titles allotted, MoEF&CC directs states

Activists welcome ministry’s move citing conflict between tribals and officials when land records do not record FRA titles

Arctic forest fires caused by global warming can jeopardise climate goals: Study

Around 146 million tonnes of carbon was released in the 2019 and 2020 fires in the Arctic

मध्य प्रदेश: लहसुन क्यों सस्ता बेचने को मजबूर हैं किसान?

मध्य प्रदेश में लहसुन लगाने वाले किसानों को भारी नुकसान हुआ है

Red Sanders falls back in IUCN’s ‘endangered’ category

The species was classified as ‘near threatened’ in 2018 

Do away with forest clearance to explore mining activities: Mines ministry to MoEF&CC

Since survey and investigation for mining opportunities during exploration do not cause any perceptible changes in forest land, these could be …

COP15 Montreal: ‘30x30 will create more militarised Protected Areas’

Fiore Longo, director of the French chapter of Survival International, details the disadvantages of 30x30 of the Global Diversity Framework

New MoEFCC notification on fly ash includes solar, wind power plants for reclamation

Manufacturers raise concern as price of fly ash bricks to be decided by CPWD’s schedule of rates

Botanical gardens failed to conserve threatened plants despite Rs 48 crore budget: CAG report

‘Unfruitful’ expenditure of Rs 73.35 lakh on demonstration project by MoEF&CC observed

Second home for Gujarat lions: 40 big cats to be moved to Barda from overflowing Gir

Translocation under Project Lion; previous papers suggest Barda may be too geographically close, may not be able to hold so many Asiatic lions