The eastern districts of Nagaland are facing environmental degradation as "miscreants" join hands with jhum cultivators spelling doom for the lush green forests of the area, official sources said.

The central Ridge, among the last bits of green cover in the polluted city, stands exposed once again to vandals, as large sections of the barbed wire fencing put up after Supreme Court ordrs, have

Serious concern has been expressed over the large-scale illegal felling of trees in the world famous Kachugaon Reserved Forest, Haultogaon Reserve Forest and Aie valley Reserved Forest, the dense

The Ministry of Environment and the Delhi Government are loggerheads over the unprovoked transfer of Conservator of Forests H C Dhawan, an Indian Forest Service(IFS) officer. Last month, The Delhi

Principal chief conservator of forests S K Pande said on Friday that the continued dry spell resulting in low humidity and increased temperatures had caused resinous vapours in the state's pine zone

The rise in price of timber at auctions organised by separate forest divisions and the West Bengal Forest Development Corporation seems to have come as a boost to the unauthorised timber trader whose

The ecological devastation wrought by fires in the hills of Uttar Pradesh has been of such intensity that it is virtually impossible to rectify. The fires which have been burning for over a month

Malaysia and Indonesia on Thursday attacked the international community for failing to produce promised aid to tackle forest fires which have stricken Southeast

In what could be termed as a major sign of disaster in the coming days, Assam, which curently has a total forest coverage of 30,708 sq km against the geographical area of 78,719 sq km , stands to

The Institute of remote Sensing(IRS) at Anna University plans to arrive at a system to identify the near real time of the occurrence of forest fires through the use of remote sesing