Instead of just conserving trees, harvest wood from them: study

Switching to wood from fossil fuels for heating and related combustion purposes can reduce CO2 emissions by about 2 million tonnes each year

India was a tree planting laboratory for 200 years — here are the results

Colonial era experiments on forests between 1857 and 1947 offer important lessons on consequences of different approaches to restoring …

As told to Parliament (August 8, 2023): Adverse impact on environment cannot linked be with deforestation, says minister

All that was discussed in the House through the day    

Climate crisis: Deforestation in southeast Asia mountains on the rise

Forests are being increasingly cut down on steeper slopes, which have a high forest carbon density relative to the lowlands 

Savage sapiens, ravaged planet and COVID-19

It may be difficult to have a planet that no longer uses oil or coal, does not kill millions of farmed animals, degrade wetlands and rivers

Deforestation, urbanisation, illegal mining, waste dumping leave Cauvery battered and bruised

Decades of degradation has led to an unprecedented crisis for the 15 million who live on the banks of the river. Down To Earth travels along the …

After 25 years of trying, why aren’t we environmentally sustainable yet?

New research, looking at dozens of unsuccessful policies, has uncovered the basic elements of failure

'The biggest driver of tropical deforestation is industrial agriculture'

Wealthy countries should provide adequate funding for tropical countries that conserve forests, says environmental economist Jonah Busch 

World set to lose India-sized forest cover by 2050

The report predicts that 289 million hectares of tropical forests will be cleared between 2016 and 2050

'Ebola is the result of environmental degradation'

Peter Hotez is the co-founder of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases that provides access to essential medicines for millions of …

Water wise in Uttarakhand

Scientific implementation of developmental programmes is needed for the optimal utilisation of water resources

Frogs are falling silent

The decline of the frog population is an early warning that something is seriously wrong with living conditions on Earth

Indonesia’s forests degrading fastest in the world, palm oil blamed

About 40 per cent of total forest loss occurred within protected forest lands

A better option

Asian policymakers need to invest in environmental infrastructure to arrest ecodegradation

Null and void

Environmental degradation in Asia could impose an onerous burden on its people

Root causes

Factors that contribute to Asia's continuing environmental imbalances

Sullied cities

An entire gamut of environmental disturbances accost most Asian cities

Unholy mess

The Pampa river in Kerala is dying a slow death

Survival at stake

Death sentence

Preference to natives

Pine pressure

Pine culture has altered the Himalayan landscape with disastrous effect on its fragile ecology

The catch all

Video>>Convenient Truth by FAO 2009

The world the slaves built

After the recent earthquake, Haiti is depicted as a basket case. It was not always so

World Food Day: our agriculture must keep pace with changing climate

To feed the world, agriculture, along with forestry, fisheries and livestock, needs to become more resilient and productive