The Haryana Forest department would bring 18,000 hectares of area under tree cover and plant two crore saplings throughout the State during this financial year. It will also distribute four lakh

After years of bitter debate over logging on public lands, House Republican leaders in US have agreed to end one of the federal government's long standing subsidies for the timber industry. For

Wood-based industries have appealed the government to allow corporates to undertake industrial plantations to help industries to meet their raw material requirements, they said. This was stated by

Minister for interaction with industry: The Union Minister for Environment & Forests, Mr. Suresh P. Prabhu, on Thursday remained non-committal over the controversial issue of permitting industrial

In the wake of a searing hot spell, the forest areas of Bageshwar and Pithoragarh districts in the hills of Uttar Pradesh have been engulfed by a devastating fire, official sources said on

Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea has teamed upwith Yayasan Sabah's Innoprise Corporation Sdn Bhd to rehabilitate 5,000ha of logged-over forests in the state over the next five years. Yayasan Sabah

Effects of haze not serious : Malaysians will not suffer long term effects of thehaze which hit the country for several months last year, Health Minister Datuk Chua Jui Meng said yesterday. He said

The Indonesian forest fires, which cloaked neighbouring countries in hazardous pollutants, caused $4.4bn in economic damage last year, according to a study on the environmental

The fires ravaging Chimalapas forest in Mexico are so massive and remote that the authorities could not even count all the blazes until last week. The blazes not only have sent jungle cats, monkeys

Since the temperature has risen beyond the long dry spell in Chamba, region has increased chances of forest fires. A few stray instances in some parts of the districts have been noticed in the past