SC seeks details : The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed serious concern over the large-scale encroachments in Karnataka forests and directed the State Government to give details of such

Orissa Govt losing Rs 1,000 cr daily due to tree felling in areas lying unguarded after employees went on mass

Brazil on Tuesday placed a two-year ban on mahogany logging in much of the Amazon, a move environmentalists welcomed as a step towards controlling

Adequate attention has not been paid by the Government towards the challenging task of development of wastelands in the country, according to the Parliamentary standing committee on urban and rural

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will tell environment ministers attending the 5th Association of South East Asean Nations (ASEAN) Ministers Meeting on haze, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,

Infantry Battalion (TA) ecological, popularly known as the Eco Task Force(ETF) is currently working in the Aglar watershed area to the north of Mussoorie after having improved the weather pattern in

They may look protected on tourist maps, but forests in Liscomb Game Sanctuary's aren't safe. Clearcuts on the 43,000-hectare block - set up in 1928 to preserve big game - have ruined wilderness

Illegal sand quarrying, cutting of vegetation and cleaning of vehicles have eaten into some of the reserve forests located on the outer periphery of the city. Such incidents are wreaking havoc on the

The Chief Minister, Mr. Prem Kumar Dhumal, said that the Government had given priority for afforestation in the State and the budgetary allocation for this has been enhanced by 44 per

Ten per cent of the world's tree species face extinction through felling, forest fires and poor forest management, conservationists said in a report on Tuesday. "With 77 species already extinct, this