The Kerala State Youth Welfare Board has drawn up a programme for a 36-day-long trek by about 35 youth across the forests of Kerala, with rather conflicting objectives. The young men and women would

Despite spending a whopping Rs 520 crore on the afforestation programme over the past 45 years, the forest cover in Himachal has not exceeded 22.5 per cent of the total geographical area, which was

Depleted as Nepal's forest cover has already been due to population pressure and smuggling of timber, whatever little had been regained as a result of regeneration efforts also suffered a terrible

In rain forests at the foot of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexican and U.S. archaeologists have uncovered a monumental artwork that appears to be one of the most revealing artifacts that has been found

Wild summer fires continue to devastate large forest tracts in the UP hills. In the four-year cycle, this time about 60,000 hectares of green cover in Garhwal and Kumaon is reported to have been

Firefighters brought Florida's largest fire in ten years largely under control, but only after flames burning wildly for four days left huge swathes of the state charred, forestry officials

More than 300 sheesham trees have allegedly been felled and sold illegally by a resident of Jhindwala village in the past few months as the authorities concerned failed to check him due to his "high

Tribal Joint Action(TJA), a confederation of over a dozen Non Governmental organisations(NGOs), has demanded Forests Minister D Manjunath to prove his charge alleging them to be behind the recent

A 200-year-old mango grove may be among the casualties of the proposed Bangalore Mysore Expressway. The trees are in Sompura village of Kengeri Hobli, Bangalore Rural District, Mr. Honnappa, a

'Treeman' Vishweshar Dutt Saklani, who has single-handedly planted more than 400,000 in Dehra Dun region, has been conferred with the Virasat Samman 99 award by organisers of the 10-day cultural