Firefighters dug ditches in a bid to halt raging fires in the northern Amazon as officials appealed for more men and water-dumping helicopters. "We lost control of this thing long time ago", said

In a bid to cultivate entrepreneurship among tribals, the Tribal coperative marketing development federation of India limited (Trifed) plans to tie-up with various state governments for effective

The Mukerji Committee on the "Review of Afforestation Policies and Rehabilitation of Wastelands" has recommended that wastelands be leased out to the corporate sector for the plantation of forest

Fire fighters battling infernos in Brazil's northern Amazon appealed for more men and equipment yesterday,but the arrival of essential water bombing helicopters was delayed,Reuters reports from Boa

The federal government plans to unveil specific measures next week to halt the rapid devastation of the Amazon rain forest, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Known as the Green Package, the measures

A proposal to reduce the export log tax by 20% will be an environmental and economic disaster for Papua New Guinea, said Greenpeace. Greenpeace has released a leaked Papua New Guinea Forest Authority

Forests, which occupies 35 to 37 percent of land in Nepal, hasn't been able to contribute much in the country's revenue, said Minister for Soil and Conservation Hridayesh

Haze has returned to Malaysia's eastern state of Sabah on Borneo island dur to a spate of local fires and worsened by a prolonged drought, a report said on

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) says the report of the A K Mukherjee committee suggesting that forest land be given to industry for plantations could "sound the final death knell" for

The Indonesia forest fires are back. And the consequences could be worse than last year. Singapore has had a foretaste. As the new blazes spread their way through East Kalimantan and Sumatra air