Simply Put: Making way for parliament

Miracle amid ruins

SCULPTURE>>NUCLEAR DISASTER • Japan

New fruit of jam

Ending resin tapping

Blind carnage

Book Excerpt: A guide to the Peninsula’s indigenous floral wealth

Many in southern India are unaware that the region hosted and still hosts unique botanical life

Old forests are critically important for slowing climate change and merit immediate protection from logging

A majority of national forest area that is mature and old growth is not protected from logging

Why India should enact a special law for conserving its sacred groves

India’s sacred groves are being gradually altered due to ever-expanding human populations, pollution and removal of biomass; effective …

Mission Hariyali: This man distributes free saplings to bring back fruit trees to the nearly barren villages of Nalanda 

Now, there are at least 4,000-5,000 plants in the villages of Noorsarai block; residents do not just eat the fruits but also sell them for income

How understanding genes can help scientists adapt trees to climate change

Climate change can transform the time when trees sprout leaves; understanding plant’s genes can help tide over the problem 

A wildfire recovery guide for California

Many good-intentioned people take wrong steps after a fire because of ignorance. The California Native Plant Society has released a guide for …

The logic of mass tree plantations

Such plantations can succeed in India only if farmers are given proper incentive and protection to grow them

'Central European trees more prone to frost damage due to global warming'

Study says late spring frosts affect growth and reproduction of plants, and result in economic losses

Silent saviour: This man is trying to save Kashmir’s majestic chinars, all on his own

For most of the last decade, Abdul Ahad Khan’s initiative has added much to the Band Wadar forest in Kupwara

The week that was

Round-up of science news from the week that includes a possible vaccine for dengue, cosmic rays in the Milky Way and other news stories

Ireland has lost almost all of its native forests — here’s how to bring them back

Around 80% of the island of Ireland was once green

Rewilding: Mass restoration or wishful thinking?

The concept is pivoted on 3Cs — core, corridor and carnivore

Pollutants take heavy toll of European trees

Trees at risk

Pest attack

Forests in Himachal Pradesh are under attack from a deadly pest

Planter of Indore

A zoology professor motivates people to plant trees in memory of the deceased

An army of mad trees

J K Tiwari and Asad R Rahmani profile a tree that is changing the face of Kutch

Cloning trees

High 'intake'!

Vanishing trees