If the Capital's civic agencies had been sincere in their endeavours to green the city in various drives since 1950, about 470 square kilometres would already have been under forest cover on 2

The Committee of Natural Resources and Environment Conservation has condemned the government for scrapping the cabinet resolutions of the Chavalit Yongchaiyudh administration. The committee, run by

The World Wildlife Fund yesterday announced that more than 25 million acres of the world's forests have been independently certified as meeting enviornmental standards for being "well-managed,"

"The fires raging in north Florida are so big, so hot, so fast that they have had a devastating ecological impact," one that could take decades to reverse, according to forestry experts. Hot fires in

The procedural bottlenecks coming in the way of speedy environmental clearances to industrial projects on account of the restrictive provisions of the Forest conservation Act of 1980 are proposed to

A total of 140 community forests have been handed over to the community users around the Nepal Swiss Community Forest Project which is being implemented in Ramechhap district over the last six

Export of timber from Bihar will be severely hit this year as most of the seasum tree plantaitons have perished. Farmers and the state forest department were of the view that most of the plantations

The Indonesian paper giant Sinar Mas is planning to set up 100 per cent-owned trading subsidiary in India to take advantage of four per cent duty exemption of trading companies. The domestic paper

Imposition of additional special duty in this years' budget on import of waste paper as pulp by small and mediym scale paper mills has jeopardised the industry's future , a small papers association

Even as Madhya Pradesh risks losing lakhs of sal trees due to extensive damage caused by a beetle, sal borer, the state government has sought the intervention of the Union ministry for environment