A recent international conference on climate change and sustainable agriculture in New Delhi brought forth the shocking realisation that there are no conclusive studies in India on the prospective impact of climate change on the agriculture sector including livestock and fisheries.

Much of the country's understanding comes from global data provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the World Meteorological Organisation and other world bodies.

None of the two city corporations in Dhaka is going to plant any trees in the capital in 2011-2012 fiscal year for lack of planning and mismanagement, say corporation officials.

The Depart-ment of Forests, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has sown 9.820 million saplings of different species that would be planted during spring tree plantation campaign 2012 with special focus on Malakand,

Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said that people in Pakistan are likely to be particularly vulnerable to water shortages due to leakage, inefficient domestic water use, or underinvestment in provi

For long, industrialised states were looked upon as the ones trading forest cover for development. However, a recent report by the Forest Survey of India showed five of the nine most industrialised states were able to increase their green cover in 2011, compared to 2009. Between 2001 and 2010, these nine states contributed 60 per cent towards the country’s gross domestic product output.

Data analysed by Business Standard showed the five states added 178 sq km of forests. The states were Tamil Nadu (74 sq km), Rajasthan (51 sq km), Orissa (48 sq km), Karnataka (four sq km) and West Bengal (one sq km).

Environmentalists press for clearer picture of fund disbursals as forest cover shrinks

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) may soon audit the fund deposited for compensatory afforestation, which has a corpus of about Rs 25,000 crore. Environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan said the CAG could audit the fund if it wanted to do so. “I have written to him (CAG Vinod Rai) in response to his letter, where he said CAG could audit the fund if the government shifts the money being kept in various nationalised banks to the Public Accounts of India,” she said

Ensure lease holders in Karnataka do not flout rules, report tells government

China's heavily polluted capital, Beijing, plans to reduce air pollution levels by 15 percent by 2015 and 30 percent by 2020 through phasing out old cars, relocating factories and planting new fore

Slash-and-burn agricultural practices, banned by governments because of the risk of uncontrolled fires, provide better growing conditions for valuable new trees than more modern methods of forest c

The Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (Fimi) said Bellary district administration has misled ICFRE team on impact of mining in the district.