Kerala State Committee of the ruling Left Democractic Front (LDF) has decided in principle to close down the sandal oil extraction units functioning mainly on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border in Palakkad

Some 40,000 north eastern Florida residents, the last of the fire evacuees, were allowed to return home on Monday as firefighters gained the upper hand over devastating

Contrary to earlier officials, Maharashtra does not have 21 per cent of its land under forest cover. It is an abysmally low nine per cent. "The situation in Maharashtra is much worse. Although it

Toyota Motor Co. will team up with Mitsui & Co. and Nippon Paper Industries Co. to launch forestation operations in Australia. The new venture aims to exploit the power of trees to absorb carbon

Amazon is our greatest forest, greatest wilderness, greatest repository of biological diversity and the greatest of environmental icons. And the Amazon's big problems - fires, reckless

The number of bush and forest fires in the Malaysia has reduced drastically since the Government adopted stern measures to combat the problem. "In the last two months, the department responded to an

The Union Environment and Forest Ministry has mooted appointment of "green guards" in every village of the country to protect forests with the participation of the people. The Environment Minister,

With thousands of evacuees spending the fourth of July in shelters, hotels or even their cars, fire-weary northen Florida got a break from the high winds and oppressive heat that have spread

A further 36,000 people were ordered to leave their fire-threatened Florida homes on Friday, bringing the total number of evacuations to more than 70,000 in three days. the whole of Flagler Country,

In British Columbia, Greenpeace applauded logging giant MacMilan Bloedel for showing leadership and vision by announcing a dramatic forest program that will change the face of the forest industry in