Tackling Corruption

Fighting corruption requires a determined response

Deforestation embargoes in Brazilian Amazon not followed in over 85% area: Report

Embargoes helped revive only 13% forest area

Over 1,700 trees to be axed for widening NH-59 in Odisha

The felling of several old trees has already been started in Ratanpur

Putting an end to commercialisation

Careless losses

Western expansionism caused more carbon emission

The economics of empowerment

Wasting the east

PAKISTAN

Islander's doom

Brazil

Ominous signs

INDONESIA

Rodent menace

The plague of Samar Island

Ailing Afghanistan

In Brazil’s rainforests, the worst fires are likely still to come

Bolsonaro inherited weakened environment laws that he seems to be bent on weakening further

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 

About 20,000 tonnes of Red Sanders were smuggled from India between 2016 and 2020: Report

Heartwood of Red Sanders is in demand in the domestic and international markets for making furniture, handicrafts and musical instruments

The world's carbon stores are going up in smoke with vanishing wilderness

The world has lost 10 per cent of its wilderness areas in the past 20 years and, with it, vast stores of carbon

Homeless blues

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Cementing Ties

Wherever there is construction, there is corruption. The foundation of most projects rests on commissions, bribes and kickbacks

Divide And Rule

Policies that alienate the people from control over their habitat can cost the country dearly in terms of green cover and air and water quality

The Root Of All Evil

Laws meant to protect the forests are doing exactly the opposite. Funds for afforestation programmes are pocketed by the corrupt and land remains …

More than 75% of Amazon rainforest near tipping point, may transform into dry savanna: Study

Researchers say it is not too late to act; reducing deforestation will protect the forest’s threatened parts and boost Amazon rainforest …

Brazil lost rainforest the size of Jamaica in 2019-2020: Institute

There was a 9.5 per cent jump in deforestation of the Brazillian Amazon since 2019, in line with President Jair Bolsonaro’s anti-…