Uttarakhand: 4 arrested for starting fires, policeman dies fighting flames
More than 2,900 hectares of forest have been razed in last three months, and the fires have killed at least four people so far
Kashmir: a treasure of forest herbs
Many of these herbs have medicinal value and are used in the treatment of both common and serious ailments
Madhya Pradesh's call to bamboo investors reignites debate over forest access
Agreements for planting bamboo over 36,000 sq km of forestland take away the rights of the community, say forest rights activists
Babri demolition: participatory efforts can douse the flames
Even 24 years after the demolition, courts and law makers have not been able to resolve the issue. Perhaps we can borrow the approach of …
From reservations to recognition
Pushed onto reservations and almost forgotten, the indigenous people of the world have finally got onto the international environmental agenda.…
Pact of devastation
France has agreed to cancel part of the debt it is owed by Cameroon in return for the right to destroy the country's rainforests
Jungle raj
CAG memo shows IFS officers are administering country’s premier forestry research body like a fiefdom
Odisha seeks panel nod for forest clearance transfer from POSCO ltd to Jindal Steel
Forest Advisory Committee says Union Environment Ministry will seek legal opinion on the issue
Do away with forest clearance to explore mining activities: Mines ministry to MoEF&CC
Since survey and investigation for mining opportunities during exploration do not cause any perceptible changes in forest land, these could be …
Jungle story
How the world's first human-made forest is being sustained by an indigenous community in Assam despite a range of threats
Commercial harvest of degraded forests on cards?
Environment minister Prakash Javadekar's statement that government is considering plan to harvest open forests goes against the policy of …
10 villages to get forest benefits
Maharashtra to finally give JFM villages their due, but the share is bigger, say activists
Diary of a political carnival
UNCED saw the largest ever gathering of heads of government in history. Ceremony, glitter and pomp were played out against a backdrop of …
Faceless Figures
The status of cancer data in India is as scary as the killer itself. The most recent data on cancer by the Indian Council of Medical Research is …
Forest ministry favours intrusion
The biggest threat protected areas across the country face right now is from their purported protector -- the Union ministry of environment and …
Melghat Malaise
This first of three Down To Earth analyses of tiger reserves finds Melghat in Maharashtra in a legal mess
Ratnagiri protests clearance to Jaitapur power park
Expert panel gives conditional approval, but environmentalists tout it as a façade
Pink bollworm resistant to Bt: Monsanto
Commercial interest behind claim, says Centre’s research institute
'Draft National Forest Policy 2018 violates indigenous rights'
Human Rights group writes to UN to urge the Indian government to abandon the Draft and to involve indigenous peoples in the compensatory …
IFR review: Madhya Pradesh’s Van Mitra portal a tool to re-reject forest right claims, RTI data shows
Official machinery rejects claims without the knowledge of the Gram Sabha or the Forest Rights Committee
In a first, Odisha studies potential forest land under FRA
New estimate offers ‘baseline for planning and effective implementation of forest rights Act recognition’
The curse of coca
The move to use a new herbicide to eradicate the coca plant spells trouble for South America's rainforests
Climatic loophole
Sinks can now be potentially identified as the most dangerous loophole for the environmental integrity of the Kyoto Protocol
Mission impossible?
The sheer scope of the biodiversity action plan may militate against its successful implementation
Models aren’t a panacea for saving the environment: hard lessons from REDD+
Model-making leads to the potential for deforestation and improved livelihoods at scale to be sidestepped, while making it possible for …