The Centre has cleared two major forest conservation projects - Eastern Ghat Development Project - for Tamil Nadu under the Ninth Five Year Plan, according to Mr. R. Annamalai,Conservator of Forests,

The United Nations top environment official threatened to publish a blacklist of logging companies shown to be responsible for sparking forest fires in Indonesia and elsewhere in south-east Asia.

Under the leadership of Mr. Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), fire fighting experts from around the world have come up with an immediate, first

Worried over the gross misuse of green belts by urban development bodies, the forest department has mooted a comprehensive measure for conservation of urban forest covers of Uttar Pradesh. Till now

A tribal leader whose people threatened to commit mass suicide because of a plan to extract oil from their homeland in the Columbian rain forest is among six winners of the Goldman Environmental

The Bukit Suharto forest is dying, along with hundreds of thousands of hectares of adjoining jungle. This coastal stretch of southeast Bornea, on the edge of world's second-biggest rain forest, has

The Punjab Government is to launch a project aimed at reviving the woods around Anandpur Sahib on an area of 285 acres. This will help maintain the ecological balance. The project was cleared at a

Three Veerappan associates including the lone women member of his gang, were captured by the Special Task Force (STF) early on Sunday morning. They were rounded up when the gang members were on a

The new sound of 90s is music that is environmentally friendly. Some big name makers of musical instruments in San Francisco have joined others in Britain in doing their bit to protect endangered

In a surprise move, the Mukerji Committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MEF) has recommended that forest land be given to industry for plantations. This comes as a welcome relief to the