The Legislative Assembly today adopted the Karnataka Forest and Certain Other Law (Amendment) Bill, 1997, already passed by the Legislative Council, after discussion. It is based on the National

China's largest tropical rain forest in the Xishuangbanna Nature Reserve in Yunnan Province, will get further protection when the reserve is enlarged from 247,000 ha to 533,000 ha. Xishuangbanna has

Dense smog from forest and bush fires has forced Brunei to order government offices and schools to open late and prompted a travel warning from the United States, authorities said on Tuesday. The

A dispute over Canadian softwood lumber exports to the US could be rekindled after a US Customs Service ruling that will block about $20m a month in Canadian sales. But Canadian producers and the

A parliamentary committee has recommended constitution of a task force by the Union Environment and Forest Ministry to launch an afforestation programme in Orissa's Kalahandi, Bolangir and Koraput

A destructive 'die-back' disease has struck the eco-friendly, evergreen neem tree. The die-back disease, as named by botanists, was noticed about four years ago and it is now well established that it

Forest fires are raging out of control in Indonesia's East Kalimantan province, environment minister Juwono Sudarsono was quoted as saying on Tuesday, likening the area to America's lawless "Wild

the proposed 165-km long rail line between Hubli and Ankola, near the Goa border has drawn the ire of environmentalists who say that the project will cut through the evergreen forests of the

The Indian farm Forestry Development Co-operative (IFFDC) has put forward a proposal to the Global Environment facility (GEF) for undertaking co-operative farming for afforestation which will have

Wildfires have devoured nearly 300,000 acres of forest and grasslands in 11 Mexican states and devasted a major national park on the fringe of the nation's capital, choaking Mexico city in a shroud