Global Eco Watch: Botswana farmers can now keep small game on their farms
Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology
Russian poplars and COVID-19: Myths, facts and the road ahead
The Jammu and Kashmir administration ordered felling of female Russian poplars to contain COVID-19 spread; the high court ordered a stay
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 6, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 4, 2023)
How to stabilise sand dunes in Thoothukudi’s theri land
A wind break or shelter belt is a carefully raised tree and shrub structure that can prevent the wind from beating on the land surface and …
Aarey's Chipko moment
The plan to clear Mumbai's last green cover is facing stiff resistance from citizens and non-profits
Online shopping means cutting billions of trees
India’s booming e-commerce industry has huge environmental costs and there are no estimates about the amount of packaging and waste …
Nature’s timeless abode
With a rich natural and cultural heritage, meghalaya’s mawphlang sacred grove never ceases to surprise visitors
Increasing tree cover in drylands can ensure food security, solve water crisis
The world’s drylands must be restored as they provide habitat for biodiversity, protect against erosion, help combat desertification and …
Zimbabwe baobab trees dying due to mysterious disease
This could cause a potential food crisis in the country which is in the throes of drought
Gum arabic from Africa’s acacia trees in the Sahel is used in hundreds of products: What’s worth knowing
Sudan accounts for about 70% of global gum arabic exports
Solace in money plant
Forestry rescues recession-ridden investors in Europe and North America
Teak trees sold
Protecting forests
From the blurbs
Women in Chhattisgarh recreate ‘Chipko movement’ to save Hasdeo Aranya
Activists claim more than 200,000 trees spread across 841 hectares of forest will have to be chopped down for the mining projects planned in the area
Mango trees are flowering well this season; why then are farmers worried?
Traditional beliefs say mango flowering brings unpredictable rainfall; rising temperatures have a dominant role to play, say experts
These methods can help in sustainable pasture management
Forming a pasture land development committee at the local level is necessary for the development, protection and maintenance of pastures
Forests in the tropics are critical for tackling climate change — yet the people showing how are being exploited
It costs an estimated $7 million a year to measure how much carbon is sequestered by intact tropical forests
Tree rings hold the key
They are natural archives of yearly waterflow pattern of rivers
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Mahogany woes
A new report says that USA's demand for mahogany is threatening rainforests
Poplar demand
Trees take centrestage in Himachal Pradesh
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An axe that went awry