Acknowledging that forest fires on Borneo island have reached catastrophic proportions, environment ministers on Saturday called for intensified efforts to prevent the blazes from spreading. "The

The forest areas occupy maximum space among the five districts of Sagar division of Bundelkhand region as a result State government had formed one new forest circle by separating Chhatarpur,

The Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested three persons and booked 12 others, including some senior forest officials, accusing them of irregularities of over Rs 35 lakh in the Gorewada-Ambazari

Five institutes led by the Indian Institute of Bio-Social Research and Development presented a unique management course to effectively monitor vegetational changes and structure management decisions

Beijingers will plant 1.5 million trees on Saturday in an effort to improve the environment in the Chinese capital, the China Daily

Three European members of the Greenpeace environmentalist organisation and one Canadian were sentenced to 21 days in prison Friday for their activities in an anti-logging demonstration last

The Delhi chief minister, Mr Sahib Singh Verma, says his government will launch various schemes to "change the face of Delhi" to a cleaner, greener place in the next few

"A gift to the world," was how the former persident of Guyana Cheddi Jagan, described his country's Iwokrama rainforest programme. And the gift was made, he added, "without any loss to ourselves."

Greenpeace condemned announced amendments to the Forest Practices Code as being environmentally and economically short-sighted. According to the Canada government's press release the Ministry of

The market rejection of Canadian rainforest destruction is increasing both in US and Europe: Canadian logging companies have already suffered a loss of tens of millions of US dollars in cancellation