Dense forests lost; increase in net green cover: Forest Survey of India 2015

While northeastern states are the most hit, Andaman & Nicobar Islands gained maximum forests

‘Brazil president must consider ecological impact of new development projects’

Proposals to open Brazil’s protected areas to mining and dams concerns researchers

Focus on pledges

Accountability issue set to take centrestage at the upcoming CoP-8 (Read full article)

What happened to India’s flood management plan?

There is no national-level flood control authority in India — 43 years after the country’s first and last commission …

Centre ignores certifying agency

Private players set up forest certification body even as the ministry, which manages 90 per cent of the forests, gives it a cold shoulder

Palm oil plantations driving illegal logging in Indonesia

Report shows how corruption and lax enforcement by government is abetting illegal practices by well-connected business people

Why we need to factor ecosystem services into economic development planning

The multiplier effects of healthy forest cover are enormous in terms of economic, social development objectives

Unhappy Bani

March of real estate threatens one of the last patches of native Aravalli forest near Delhi

Springing back to life

Two villages in Uttarakhand take lessons in hydrogeology to revive dry springs, end water conflict

Chipping away

Time was, when the Saranda forest cover was so dense that even the sun's rays couldn't penetrate it. Ironically, denudation has driven the region …

At the crossroads

As the debate continues, the Northeast must stamp the decision: log out of forest bureaucracy and log in to local-based prosperity

The verdict

Read between the lines: the Supreme Court order has a development model hidden for the Northeast

The accused

Governments clinically interpret the ban to make space for the forest bureaucracy, alienating people from their own habitats

The wasteland

Bellary has lost 45 per cent of its forest cover to iron ore mining, says the CEC report

Amazon rainforest is drying out. How much more abuse can it take?

Amazon rainforest is one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. Preserving its trees is crucial to meeting international targets that limit …

Blood from Ebola survivors should be used to treat disease: WHO

Antibodies from the blood of patients who have recovered could be transferred to those who are suffering from the viral disease

Bolsanaro’s environmental crimes come under EU scanner

Europe’s resolve to act against the Bolsonaro government’s environmental crimes appears to be strengthening

Ebola unleashed

The deadly virus had long confined itself to the backwoods of Africa. Increasing deforestation has led to its frequent emergence as epidemics

Himalaya's human face

HIMALAYA LIFE ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD·David Zurick and P P Karan·John Hopkins University Press Baltimore and London·1999&…

The battle over forests

Are the recent eviction drives misdirected? (Read full article)

Hubballi-Ankola railway line will augur desertification, water crisis, warn experts

The proposed 164-kilometre railway project cutting through Western Ghats will prompt deforestation and accelerate climate change …

Indigenous people slam Peru government for unrestrained deforestation of Amazon

Around 13 per cent of original forest area deforested by 2014, according to a new report

Protectors dubbed criminals

Tribals in Madhya Pradesh celebrate festival to reclaim forests; officials say they are encroaching land

Fading beauty

Changing climate conditions in the Northeast are wiping out the fragile orchids. Will other species follow?

Why environmental degradation is a big health risk

Down To Earth and Centre for Science and Environment jointly release Body Burden 2015, an annual health report