Scientists stress that conserving mangroves will provide an important buffer to save coastal regions from the ravages of sea level rise due to global warming

Forest fires have been mainly responsible for wiping out 30 per cent of the orangutan population in the forests of Borneo. The reason for the decline in primate numbers, which presently stands at

the fund-starved Himachal Pradesh

Researchers attempt to reclaim degraded mangrove forests

It will take 200 years for France to restore its forests that were devastated by storms

Environmentalists in Brazil won a major victory when a legislative proposal to open more areas to logging and harvesting was put on hold till March. If the Congress approved the bill, it would have

Conservationists in Brazil come up with a model way to reduce the pressure on forests

Concern for the country's deforestation and resulting damage to the ecosystem is becoming a major issue in China, reports the China Daily. The government and the people are considering it

Fifteen years ago, Brazilians did not even have a name for the lush, tropical rainforest that tumbles from seaside mountains to the ocean along much of the nation's Atlantic coast. They came up with