Bleak future

Farakka barrage flayed

Going overboard with development?

A new project seeks to examine the environmental degradation due to development in Kochi

In 4 years, India lost over 30 million hectares of healthy land to degradation: UN data

This is almost 10% of all the country's entire landmass 

World status of land degradation

On a felling spree

Fund source

Identified to curb land blight

India losing biodiversity hotspots

India’s northeastern states desertifying most rapidly

Half of Nagaland is degraded, flags new report

Desertification in India: Canal, tubewells make saline Jaisalmer green

Increasing agricultural activity reversed soil erosion in the district

Delhi Declaration might downplay international finance institutions’ role in mitigating desertification

A key paragraph has been proposed for deletion in the draft declaration

Land degradation makes containing floods and droughts tough

Water erosion accounts for more than 50 per cent of total degraded area in India

Simply Put: Road to perdition

Despite PM Modi’s assurance, land degradation, desertification increasing

Some 29.7 per cent of India’s land is degraded, according to a new ISRO atlas

Mining for disaster

Food for thought

Groundwater sullied

NIGERIA

Livestock boom

Poor farmers can benefit from it, only if there are appropriate regulations in place

INDIA

UNITED NATIONS

Weaving insect wildlife back into the tapestry of life

The fate of insects is entwined with that of people and of many other vertebrates

UNCCD CoP: Centre unclear how states are spending money allotted for forests

The 14th Finance Commission had given 7.5 per cent weightage to forest cover

Desertification in India: Less snow, more rain ail Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur

Water guzzling apple orchards and rampant tourism is affecting the state

Urban wildlife and disappearing commons