Unless the 'E1 Nino' can also bring unseasonal rains in April or May, Southeast Asia faces the risk of another major environmental disaster in the form of haze that will blanket the

The United Nations today said it would help fight wildfires in Indonesia that have blackened at least 150,000 hectares of jungle on the island of Borneo and threaten to bring back choking smog to

We are not obsessed by here and now when we note with distress the cutting down of hundreds of trees on The Delhi-Jaipur highway near Gurgaon. The tree mafia, referred to as the forest mafia in the

Delhi's lungs are shrinking and that too, at a phenomenal pace. Cited as the only hope for preserving Delhi's environment, the ridge is depleting at the rate of one per cent per year, according to a

The much vaunted sack craft paper industry in Dhing in Nagaon district, which was a brainchild of the then Industries Minister Digen Bora, has cost the State Government a cool Rs 11 crore since 1987

The Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra (RLEK) today accused the 'forest bureaucracy' of Uttar Pradesh of trying to sabotage the Global Environment Facility (GEF) approved project for

Responding to the call by Greenpeace and other environmentalists to help protect the world's largest unprotected rainforest, major companies from the United States and around the world, have begun

The Forest Department will hold a national level seminar on the theme "Forests for the people" to mark the golden jubilee of Independence as well as its 150th anniversary in

Forest minister Shiv Netam was grilled by the opposition members over the state government's inaction over sal borer pest infection which has spread over the years and assumed menacing proportions

The Chief Minister Digvijay Singh has underlined the need for private investment in the development of forestry in the State. Mr Singh said that the private investment should be based on people's