China’s growing footprint on the globe threatens to trample the natural world

Chinese investment is driving an unprecedented investment boom in global infrastructure, but it is harming the planet

The global road-building explosion is shattering nature

Roads have sliced and diced almost the entire land surface of Earth, leaving huge areas prone to illegal logging, mining and hunting

World Wildlife Day: India’s conflict with elephants

Elephants stand at the focal point on the occasion of World Wildlife Day. In India, human-elephant conflict is increasing due to shrinking habitats

Global lungs or firewood for the poor?

Indiscriminate felling of trees to meet human and animal needs is not only depleting India's forest wealth at an alarming rate, but also …

Thais go on logging, despite ban

A UN ban on export of hardwood from Cambodia notwithstanding, Thai loggers continue to exploit loopholes and carry wood across the border.

Saved from the axe

Spirited village women in Himachal Pradesh save a clump of deodar trees from being chopped by mercenary woodcutters.

Of barren hills and barrel smoke

Militancy has destroyed much more than peace in Kashmir. Kalashnikov-trotting extremists are ravaging the last green frontiers of the 'heaven on …

Deep rumblings

Increase in incidence of earthquakes in Kerala, otherwise a seismically stable zone, is due to high sea pressure and changing land- use patterns

Heat and sawdust

The fires in Brazil and in Indonesia speak volumes of what happens when humans try to make a living by killing forests and neglecting the poor

Saving the earth

Techniques developed by villagers in Himachal Pradesh can be integrated into plans to reclaim rocky wasteland in the hills

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 16, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal  

Community leadership reduces deforestation, poverty: Nepal study

Deforestation was down 37 per cent, poverty fell 4.3 per cent between 2000 and 2012

Paper forests: India’s missing stretches of green

The most bad news is what the biennial forest survey report leaves unsaid

Biennial Forest Survey Report: What does State of India’s Forest 2021 tell us

Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon

8.4 million soccer fields of land deforested in the Amazon over the past decade

BRAZIL

This new tool can drive India’s eco-restoration initiatives; here’s how

The tool helps the user in identifying species that match their restoration objectives

Simply Put: Making way for parliament

Why reducing emissions from deforestation, forest degradation remains a challenge

Fund constraints and lack of clarity on implementation derails the progress of REDD+

Under stress

Biodiversity at risk in protected forest areas

BANGLADESH

Exaggerated losses

Villagers in charge

Rightful dues

Popular pressure must break this unholy alliance