Singapore suffered an unexpected bout of haze on Friday when winds swept smoke from forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia over the city-state for the first time in months. The pollution standards

Man's greed and apathy , hostile soil conditions and insect attacks have over the years, been slowly but inexorably pushing pinus gerardiana, commonly called chilgoza or neoza pine, towards

More than 300 nongovernmental organisations have criticized a government plan to make heavy cuts in programs to protect Brazil's rainforests. Programs to fights forest destruction and increase

The bizarre phenomenon of bamboo flowering in the wild is giving tribals in the northeast sleepless nights. Legend has it that bamboo flowering, coupled with the army of rodents plundering granaries

Asia could face a second economic crisis if the region's increasingly high level of forest destruction was not reversed, the World Bank has warned. World Bank senior environment adviser Mr. Ken

During the mid 1970s people in the southern plains of Nepal rushed to plant sisso trees and reaped mega profits by selling wood in the market. But nearly two decades later now, dreams of quick return

Scientists of Parmar University and Horticulture, and Forestry at Nauni, near Solan, have successfylly developed nursery and plantation technologies for large-scale establishment of 'sandal' or

It will be a Christmas without cards but plenty of greetings in a green way. Friends of the Earth is hoping to reduce by 500,000 the number of Christmas cards sent this year, equivalent to 125 trees

With more than 33 per cent land under forest cover, Goa is an ecological success story. But the state's Forest Department is way down on the Government's list of priorities. A severe cutback on

The rate of sandalwood smuggling in Tamil Nadu has come down slightly in the past six months, compared to same the period last year, according to Forest Department officials.From April to September