A dispute over a plot demarcation has highlighted the problem of protecting privately owned forests in Himachal.

VILLAGERS in Uttara Kannada district are waging a battle against Karnataka Forest Department officials who are allowing contractors to fell trees in the betta lands -- tracts of forests sanctioned

The Siberian forests are facing the axe from a Russia eager to top the financial potencial of its timber.

If paper and power prices included ecological costs, the consumer would have to pay at least 60 per cent more for them than he pays today

THIRTY years of deforestation in the temperate regions has caused more pollution than 140 years' use of forests in the tropics. When' temperate forests were cut down in the 19th century by the

THE spotted owl is creating a flap in USA. A bitter fight over its habitat has driven everyone from President George Bush to the common environmentalist and loggers barmy. This fortnight, the